Section 13.04.240. Certain vehicles to carry flares or other devices.  


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  • 	(a)  Except as provided in (c) of this section, no person may drive a truck, bus, truck-tractor or a motor vehicle towing a mobile home or pole trailer upon a highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality unless there is carried in the vehicle the following equipment:  
    		(1) three flares, three red electric lanterns, or three portable red emergency reflectors;  
    		(2) three red-burning fusees unless red electric lanterns or red portable emergency reflectors are carried with the vehicle; and  
    		(3) two red cloth flags at least 12 inches square with standards to support the flags and visible for a distance of at least 600 feet under normal atmospheric conditions.  
    	(b)  No person may drive at night, or other times set out in sec. 10 of this chapter, a motor vehicle used for the transportation of an explosive, a cargo tank truck used for the transportation of a flammable liquid or a compressed gas, or a motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, unless there is carried in the vehicle three red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of (c) of this section. A vehicle listed in this subsection may not carry in the vehicle a flare, fusee, or another signal produced by flame.  
    	(c)  No flare, fusee, electric lantern or portable reflector unit may be used for compliance with the requirements of this section unless the device is designed and constructed so as to be capable of displaying or reflecting red light clearly visible and distinguishable from all distances within 600 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night or other times set out in sec. 10 of this chapter, when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlights required by this chapter.  
    

Authorities

28.05.011

Notes


Authority
AS 28.05.011
History
In effect before 7/28/59; am 12/15/61, Register 3; am 8/10/66, Register 22; am 12/31/69, Register 31; am 6/28/79, Register 70