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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation
Chapter 820 - Special Provisions for Certain Vehicles
Section 820.360 - Illegal ambulance lighting equipment; exemption; penalty.

Universal Citation:
OR Rev Stat § 820.360 (2025)
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(1) A person commits the offense of illegal ambulance lighting equipment if the person drives or moves on any highway or owns and causes or knowingly permits to be driven or moved on any highway an ambulance that does not contain and is not at all times equipped with warning lights in proper condition and adjustment as required under ORS 820.350.

(2) This section does not apply to any person or ambulance exempted by ORS 682.035 or 682.079 from regulation by the Oregon Health Authority.

(3) Authority of political subdivisions to regulate warning lights on ambulances is limited under ORS 682.031.

(4) The offense described under this section, illegal ambulance lighting equipment, is a Class C traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §763; 1995 c.383 §30; 2009 c.595 §1149]

Note: The amendments to 820.360 by section 20, chapter 278, Oregon Laws 2025, become operative January 1, 2027. See section 24, chapter 278, Oregon Laws 2025. The text that is operative on and after January 1, 2027, is set forth for the user’s convenience.
(1) A person commits the offense of illegal ambulance or organ transport vehicle lighting equipment if the person drives or moves on any highway or owns and causes or knowingly permits to be driven or moved on any highway an ambulance or organ transport vehicle that does not contain and is not at all times equipped with warning lights in proper condition and adjustment as required under ORS 820.350.

(2) This section does not apply to any person or ambulance exempted by ORS 682.035 or 682.079 from regulation by the Oregon Health Authority.

(3) Authority of political subdivisions to regulate warning lights on ambulances and organ transport vehicles is limited under ORS 682.031.

(4) The offense described under this section, illegal ambulance and organ transport vehicle lighting equipment, is a Class C traffic violation.

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