Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary:
1.An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with a combination of interior and
exterior lights, flashing headlamps, and flashing tail lamps as provided in this section and in
this chapter.
2.An official law enforcement, fire department, emergency medical services, or
emergency management vehicle owned by the state or a municipality, as defined in section
670.1, may be equipped with flashing headlamps.
3.An authorized emergency vehicle owned by the state, a municipality, as defined in
section 670.1, or a private emergency medical services company delivering services to the
state, a municipality, or a hospital pursuant to a written contract, or a privately owned vehicle
designatedasanauthorizedemergencyvehiclepursuanttosection321
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Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary:
1. An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with a combination of interior and
exterior lights, flashing headlamps, and flashing tail lamps as provided in this section and in
this chapter.
2. An official law enforcement, fire department, emergency medical services, or
emergency management vehicle owned by the state or a municipality, as defined in section
670.1, may be equipped with flashing headlamps.
3. An authorized emergency vehicle owned by the state, a municipality, as defined in
section 670.1, or a private emergency medical services company delivering services to the
state, a municipality, or a hospital pursuant to a written contract, or a privately owned vehicle
designatedasanauthorizedemergencyvehiclepursuanttosection321.451,shallbeequipped
with a combination of operational red and blue lights.
4. An authorized emergency vehicle equipped with an interior or exterior light bar must
have the light bar positioned such that front and rear facing red lights are on the driver’s side
of the vehicle and front and rear facing blue lights are on the passenger’s side of the vehicle.
5. An authorized emergency vehicle equipped with an interior or exterior light bar with
red and blue flashing lights may be equipped with flashing or solid white lights scattered
among or between a clear or colored lens that displays a red or blue flashing light.
6. An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with one or more lights capable of
emitting a split red and blue steady or flashing light, which may be mounted on or in the
vehicle.
7. An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with one or more lights on the side
of the vehicle capable of emitting red and blue light, red and white light, or blue and white
light.
8. An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with one or more lights with a clear
or colored lens.
9. An official law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency medical services, or emergency
management vehicle may be equipped with lights or light bars containing one or more rear
zone amber lights or amber directional arrows, which shall be in addition to any other
required lighting equipment. An authorized emergency vehicle shall not be equipped with an
amber light positioned on the front or side of the vehicle. However, an aerial fire apparatus
may be equipped with amber flashing lights on the outriggers of the apparatus.
10. An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with one or more steady,
oscillating, or flashing white lights, flashing headlamps, or flashing reverse lamps, which
shall be in addition to any other required lighting equipment. A light bar shall not be
equipped or used to display flashing white lights visible from the rear of the vehicle. This
subsection shall not be construed to prohibit an authorized emergency vehicle owned by
the state or a municipality, as defined in section 670.1, from being equipped with or using a
spotlight or exterior light bar capable of displaying a steady white light for use as a work
light, alley light, search light, or take down light.
11. An authorized emergency vehicle owned by a state or a municipality, as defined in
section 670.1, that is primarily used as an incident command vehicle may be equipped with
one or more steady or flashing green lights, which shall be in addition to any other required
lighting equipment. A steady or flashing green light equipped pursuant to this subsection
shall not be activated unless the vehicle is being used as a stationary incident command post
at the location of an emergency incident, an official training exercise, or for maintenance or
demonstration purposes.
12. An official fire department or emergency medical services vehicle purchased,
delivered, or refurbished on or after July 1, 2021, shall be equipped with a master warning
switch to activate all emergency lights on the vehicle, in addition to one or more switches to
separately activate or isolate the front, side, and rear warning lights.