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§47-12-408.


§47-12-408.
   
   (a) Whenever any motor truck, passenger bus, truck-tractor, trailer,
   semitrailer or pole trailer, or any motor vehicle towing a
   manufactured home, is disabled upon the traveled portion of any
   highway or the shoulder thereof outside of any municipality at any
   time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles the driver of such
   vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the highway
   during the time the vehicle is so disabled on the highway except as
   provided in paragraph (b):
   
   1. A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern or a portable red
   emergency reflector shall be immediately placed at the traffic side of
   the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic.
   
   2. As soon thereafter as possible but in any event within the burning
   period of the fusee (15 minutes), the driver shall place three
   liquid-burning flares (pot torches), or three lighted red electric
   lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors on the traveled
   portion of the highway in the following order:
   
   a. One (1) approximately one hundred (100) feet from the disabled
   vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by such vehicle and toward
   traffic approaching in that lane.
   
   b. One (1) approximately one hundred (100) feet in the opposite
   direction from the disabled vehicle and in the center of the traffic
   lane occupied by such vehicle.
   
   c. One (1) at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle not less than
   ten (10) feet rearward or forward thereof in the direction of the
   nearest approaching traffic. If a lighted red electric lantern or a
   red portable emergency reflector has been placed at the traffic side
   of the vehicle in accordance with subparagraph 1 of this section, it
   may be used for this purpose.
   
   (b) Whenever any vehicle referred to in this section is disabled
   within five hundred (500) feet of a curve, hillcrest or other
   obstruction to view, the warning signal in that direction shall be so
   placed as to afford ample warning to other users of the highway, but
   in no case less than one hundred (100) feet nor more than five hundred
   (500) feet from the disabled vehicle.
   
   (c) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is
   disabled upon any roadway of a divided highway during the time that
   lights are required, the appropriate warning devices prescribed in
   paragraphs (a) and (e) of this section shall be placed as follows:
   
   One at a distance of approximately two hundred (200) feet from the
   vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by the stopped vehicle and
   in the direction of traffic approaching in that lane; one at a
   distance of approximately one hundred (100) feet from the vehicle, in
   the center of the lane occupied by the vehicle and in the direction of
   traffic approaching in that lane; one at the traffic side of the
   vehicle and approximately ten (10) feet from the vehicle in the
   direction of the nearest approaching traffic.
   
   (d) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is
   disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder
   thereof outside of any municipality at any time when the display of
   fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or portable red emergency
   reflectors is not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display
   two (2) red flags upon the roadway in the lane of traffic occupied by
   the disabled vehicle, one at a distance of approximately one hundred
   (100) feet in advance of the vehicle, and one at a distance of
   approximately one hundred (100) feet to the rear of the vehicle.
   
   (e) Whenever any motor vehicle used in the transportation of
   explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of any
   flammable liquid or compressed flammable gas is disabled upon a
   highway of this state at any time or place mentioned in paragraph (a)
   of this section, the driver of such vehicle shall immediately display
   the following warning devices: One (1) red electric lantern or
   portable red emergency reflector placed on the roadway at the traffic
   side of the vehicle, and two (2) red electric lanterns or portable red
   reflectors, one placed approximately one hundred (100) feet to the
   front and one placed approximately one hundred (100) feet to the rear
   of this disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by
   such vehicle. Flares, fusees or signals produced by flame shall not be
   used as warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in
   this paragraph.
   
   (f) The flares, fusees, red electric lanterns, portable red emergency
   reflectors and flags to be displayed as required in this section shall
   conform with the requirements of Section 12-407 applicable thereto.
   
   (g) The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles bearing
   farm tags and used exclusively for the purpose of farming and
   ranching.
   

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