To prescribe the policies and procedures of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to obtain basic uniformity of traffic control devices on all streets and highways in accordance with the following references that are approved by the FHWA for application on Federal-aid projects:
(a) MUTCD.
(b) AASHTO Guide to Metric Conversion.
(c) AASHTO Traffic Engineering Metric Conversion Factors.
(d) The material listed in this paragraph (a) of this section is incorporated by reference into this section with the approval of the Director of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. To enforce any edition other than that specified in this section, the FHWA must publish a document in the Federal Register and the material must be available to the public. All approved material is available for inspection at the FHWA and at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Contact Federal Highway Administration, Office of Transportation Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-8043; https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/contactus.htm. For information on the availability of this material at NARA, email: [email protected], or go to: www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ibr-locations.html. The material may be obtained from the following source(s) in this paragraph (d).
(1) AASHTO, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Suite 249, 444 North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 20001
(i) AASHTO Guide to Metric Conversion, 1993;
(ii) AASHTO, Traffic Engineering Metric Conversion Factors, 1993—Addendum to the Guide to Metric Conversion, October 1993.
(2) FHWA, Federal Highway Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 366-1993, also available at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov.
(i) Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD), 11th Edition, December 2023, with Revision 1 incorporated, FHWA, December 2025.
(ii) [Reserved]
[77 FR 28466, May 14, 2012, as amended at 87 FR 47931, Aug. 5, 2022; 88 FR 87695, Dec. 19, 2023; 91 FR 10773, Mar. 5, 2026]
Notes of Decisions
Mary Marshall, Individually & as Pers. Rep. v. Burlington N., Inc., 720 F.2d 1149 (9th Cir. 1983).
“The Secretary, through the Federal Highway Administration, prescribed procedures to obtain uniformity in highway traffic control devices and adopted the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on Streets and Highways, see 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 (1981), which also was adopted by…”
Hatfield v. Burlington N. R.R., 757 F. Supp. 1198 (D. Kan. 1991).
· cites it 3× “In asserting that the Secretary has adopted relevant standards in this case, the railroad points out that 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 (a) (1990) incorporates by reference the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD).”
Robert E. Hatfield v. Burlington N. R.R. Co., 958 F.2d 320 (10th Cir. 1992).
“23 C.F.R. § 655.601 (1981). 3 With this background, we begin our analysis by agreeing with the district court that § 434 of FRSA states an express preemption of state law.”
Armijo v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co., 754 F. Supp. 1526 (D.N.M. 1990).
“The Ninth Circuit in Marshall stated: The Secretary, through the Federal Highway Administration, prescribed procedures to obtain uniformity in highway traffic control devices and adopted the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on Streets and Highways, see 23 C.F.R. §…”
Taylor v. St. Louis Sw. Ry. Co., 746 F. Supp. 50 (D. Kan. 1990).
“The appellate court further found that pursuant to the Act, the Secretary of Transportation, by adopting the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on streets and Highways, see 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 (1981), delegated federal authority to regulate grade crossings to local…”
Smith v. Bernier, 701 F. Supp. 1171 (D. Maryland 1988).
“As part of their negligence claims, plaintiffs allege that the state defendants, by failing to maintain adequate lighting, warning signs, and traffic control devices at the site of the accident, are liable to them for violation of various highway standards as set forth in the…”
Robert E. Hatfield v. Burlington N. R.R. Co., 64 F.3d 559 (10th Cir. 1995).
“§ 434 , and by regulations promulgated thereunder in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control *560 Devices for Streets and Highways (“MUTCD”), 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 et seq. The relevant chronological events were as follows: 5/1/72 Kansas Department of Transportation (“KDOT”) first…”
Mills v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co., 526 S.E.2d 585 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999).
· cites it 2× “D; 23 CFR § 655.601 (a) (1990). The authority to promulgate such rules and regulations had been granted the Secretary under the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970.”
Juston Pohl v. Cnty. of Furnas, 682 F.3d 745 (8th Cir. 2012).
“§§ 60-6,118, 60-6,121; see also 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 (incorporating the Manual by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations).”
McDaniel v. S. Pac. Transp., 932 F. Supp. 163 (N.D. Tex. 1995).
“§§ 401 ^110, which provides that the Secretary is responsible for developing uniform standards and approving state designed highway safety programs as an antecedent condition to states receiving federal highway funds. Carrying out this edict, the Secretary, through the Federal…”
Smith v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co., 776 F. Supp. 1335 (N.D. Ind. 1991).
“The court noted that the Secretary of Transportation had promulgated regulations adopting the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on Streets and Highways (“MUTCD”), 23 C.F.R. § 655.601 . The manual provides that local agencies with jurisdiction over grade crossings would…”
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