HB 1432-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
03/05
HOUSE BILL 1432-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to the use of blue lights on firefighting apparatus.
SPONSORS: Rep. Mead, Hills 4; Rep. W. O’Brien, Hills 4
This bill authorizes the use of blue lights on firefighting apparatus operated by local firefighters and emergency response employees and volunteers.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2135
03/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the use of blue lights on firefighting apparatus.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Blue Lights Restricted. Amend RSA 266:78-b to read as follows:
266:78-b Blue Lights Restricted to Law Enforcement, Fire, and Emergency Response.
I. No person other than a sworn law enforcement officer with power of arrest or a firefighter or emergency response employee or volunteer of a city, town, or village district shall operate a vehicle equipped with blue colored lights, except in the case of a service technician driving the vehicle in connection with servicing or maintaining the vehicle.
II. Blue colored lights are authorized only for vehicles owned or leased by state, county, municipal, or federal law enforcement agencies, fire marshal vehicles, firefighting apparatus, and vehicles privately owned or leased by sworn law enforcement officers when authorized by their department heads. When blue colored lights are installed on a private vehicle owned by or leased to a law enforcement officer, such lights shall be covered when the vehicle is being driven by someone other than a law enforcement officer.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.