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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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