2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 189 TRAFFIC REGULATIONS -- VEHICLE EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE 189.070 Motor vehicles to carry and use required flares or similar signals.
189.070 Motor vehicles to carry and use required flares or similar signals.
(1) A person shall not operate any commercial motor vehicle upon a highway outside of
a business or residence district at any time from one-half (1/2) hour before sunset to <br>one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise unless that vehicle carries the number and type of <br>flares, electric lanterns, or other signals which the Department of Vehicle <br>Regulation shall by regulation require.
(2) Whenever any commercial motor vehicle and its lighting equipment are disabled
during a period when lighted lamps must be illuminated on vehicles and the vehicle <br>cannot immediately be removed from the main traveled portion of a highway <br>outside of a business or residence district, the person in charge of the vehicle shall <br>cause to be placed upon the highway such flares, lanterns, and other signals as the <br>Department of Vehicle Regulation shall by regulation require, and such flares, <br>lanterns, or other signals shall be utilized as required by the regulations.
Effective: July 12, 2006 <br>History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 173, sec. 6, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended
1962 Ky. Acts ch. 91, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective <br>October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739g-69d.
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