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                                  TITLE  49
                                MOTOR VEHICLES
                                  CHAPTER 9
                              VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
    49-953.  DISPLAY OF WARNING DEVICES WHEN VEHICLE DISABLED. (1) Whenever
any truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer is
disabled upon the traveled portion or the shoulder of any highway outside of
any municipality at any time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the
driver of the vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the
highway during the time the vehicle is disabled on the highway except as
provided in subsection (2):
    (a)  A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern or a portable red
    emergency reflector shall be immediately placed at the traffic side of the
    motor vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic.
    (b)  As soon thereafter as possible, but in any event within the burning
    period of the fusee (15 minutes), the driver shall place three (3)
    liquid-burning flares (pot torches), or three (3) lighted red electric
    lanterns, or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors on the traveled
    portion of the highway in the following order:
         1.  One, approximately two hundred (200) feet from the disabled
         vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by the vehicle and toward
         traffic approaching in that lane.
         2.  One, approximately two hundred (200) feet in the opposite
         direction from the disabled vehicle and in the center of the traffic
         lane occupied by the vehicle.
         3.  One at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle not less than ten
         (10) feet rearward or forward 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 paragraph 1. of this subsection, it
         may be used for this purpose.
    (2)  Whenever any vehicle referred to in this section is disabled within
five hundred (500) feet of a curve, hill crest, or other obstruction to view,
the warning signal in that direction shall be placed to afford ample warning
to other users of the highway, but in no case less than five hundred (500)
feet from the disabled vehicle.
    (3)  Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is
disabled upon any portion of a divided highway during the time that lights are
required, the appropriate warning devices prescribed in subsections (1) and
(5) of this section shall be placed one (1) 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
(1) 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; and one (1) at the traffic side of the vehicle and
approximately ten (10) feet from the vehicle in the direction of the nearest
approaching traffic.
    (4)  Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is
disabled upon the traveled portion or the shoulder of a highway outside 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 highway in the lane of
traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle, one (1) at a distance of
approximately two hundred (200) feet in advance of the vehicle, and one (1) at
a distance of approximately two hundred (200) feet to the rear of the vehicle.
    (5)  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, or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel,
is disabled upon a highway at any time or place mentioned in subsection (1) of
this section, the driver of the vehicle shall immediately display one (1) red
electric lantern or portable red emergency reflector placed on the highway at
the traffic side of the vehicle, and two (2) red electric lanterns or portable
red reflectors, one (1) placed approximately two hundred (200) feet to the
front and one (1) placed approximately two hundred (200) feet to the rear of
the disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by the
vehicle. Flares, fusees, or signals produced by flame shall not be used as
warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in this
subsection.
    (6)  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 49-952, Idaho Code.