Revision: April 5, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
HB 1364 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
2018 SESSION
18-2487
03/10
HOUSE BILL 1364
AN ACT relative to use of amber lights on vehicles.
SPONSORS: Rep. Steven Smith, Sull. 11; Rep. Soucy, Merr. 16; Rep. John J. O'Connor, Sull. 4; Rep. Rollins, Sull. 6; Rep. O'Brien, Hills. 36; Rep. Cleaver, Hills. 35; Rep. Grenier, Sull. 7; Sen. Ward, Dist 8
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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ANALYSIS
This bill eliminates the authorization to use amber emergency lights towing or transporting a vehicle.
This bill was requested by the department of safety.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
18-2487
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to use of amber lights on vehicles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
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].
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.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.