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66:1 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 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, or loading or unloading a vehicle, or when transporting a disabled vehicle.
66:2 Flashing Amber Emergency Lamps. Amend RSA 266:109, II(a) to read as follows:
(a) Said amber colored lights shall be illuminated at all times when a vehicle is in tow or when the roadside service being rendered to another vehicle presents an actual or potential hazard to the public or to the occupants of the disabled vehicle.
66:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 25, 2018
Effective Date: July 24, 2018
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66:1 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 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, or loading or unloading a vehicle.
66:2 Flashing Amber Emergency Lamps. Amend RSA 266:109, II(a) to read as follows:
(a) Said amber colored lights shall be illuminated when the roadside service being rendered to another vehicle presents an actual or potential hazard to the public or to the occupants of the disabled vehicle.
66:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 25, 2018
Effective Date: July 24, 2018