§ 39-21-19.1 — Vehicular hazard warning signals

North Dakota § 39-21-19.1

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 39: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 39-21: Equipment of Vehicles

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1. Any vehicle may be equipped with lamps for the purpose of warning the operators of
other vehicles of the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of
unusual care in approaching, overtaking, or passing.
2. After January 1, 1980, every bus, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer
eighty inches [20.32 decimeters] or more in overall width or thirty feet [9.14 meters] or
more in overall length must be equipped with lamps meeting the requirements of this
section.
3. Vehicular hazard warning signal lamps used to display warning to the front must be
mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and must
display simultaneously flashing white or amber lights, or any shade of color between
white and amber. The lamps used to display warning to the rear must be mounted at
the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and must show
simultaneously flashing amber or red lights, or any shade of color between amber and
red. These warning lights must be visible from a distance of not less than five hundred
feet [152.4 meters] in normal sunlight.