SB 14 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0990
06/03
SENATE BILL 14
AN ACT relative to the use of amber lights by plow operators.
SPONSORS: Sen. Feltes, Dist 15
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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This bill eliminates the requirement that a plow operator be actively engaged in plowing in order to use amber lights.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0990
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to the use of amber lights by plow operators.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Emergency Lights and Warning Lights; Use of Amber Lights. Amend RSA 266:78-i to read as follows:
266:78-i Use of Amber Lights. Vehicles authorized to use amber colored warning lights authorized by RSA 266:78-h may only illuminate the warning lights when their duties require them to be stopped or parked on or immediately adjacent to a way at a road, water, or sewer line construction or maintenance site in a manner that may impede or cause a hazard to traffic, when actively engaged in the delivery of United States mail, or when [actively] engaged in snow removal or ice treatment or when entering or leaving a way during plowing operations, or during repair or placement of official traffic control devices, pavement marking, or when escorting an oversize load or slow moving vehicle, or in the case of wreckers and emergency road service vehicles, when maneuvering through congested traffic to reach a disabled vehicle, providing roadside service, loading or unloading a vehicle, or [when] transporting a disabled vehicle.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
| Date | Body | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 10, 2017 | Senate | Hearing |
| Feb. 16, 2017 | Senate | Floor Vote |
Feb. 16, 2017: Inexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 02/16/2017; SJ 6
Feb. 16, 2017: Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate, 02/16/2017; SC 10
Jan. 10, 2017: Hearing: 01/10/2017, Room 103, LOB, 01:15 pm; SC 5
Jan. 5, 2017: To Be Introduced 01/05/2017 and Referred to Transportation; SJ 4