Article 17.--UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES
8-1744.Flares or warning devices; vehicles subject to requirements;
use, when required; unlawful acts; compliance with federal requirements.
(a) No person shall operate any truck, bus or truck-tractor, or any
motor vehicle towing a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer eighty (80)
inches or more in width or thirty (30) feet or more in length, upon any
highway outside an urban district or upon any divided highway at any time
from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise unless there
shall be carried in such vehicles the following equipment, except as
provided in subsection (b):
(1) At least three (3) flares or three (3) red electric lanterns or
three (3) portable red emergency reflectors, each of which shall be capable
of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than six hundred
(600) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime.
No flare, fusee, electric lantern or warning flag shall be used for the
purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section, unless such
equipment is of a type which has been submitted to the secretary of
transportation and approved by the secretary. No portable reflector unit
shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this
section, unless it is so designed and constructed as to be capable of
reflecting red light clearly visible from all distances within six hundred
(600) feet to one hundred (100) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at
night when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps, and
unless it is of a type which has been submitted to and approved by the
secretary of transportation.
(2) At least three (3) red-burning fusees, unless red electric lanterns
or red portable emergency reflectors are carried.
(b) No person shall operate at the time and under conditions stated in
subsection (a) any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives
or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or
compressed gases, unless there shall be carried in such vehicle three (3)
red electric lanterns or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors
meeting the requirements of subsection (a), and there shall not be carried
in any said vehicle, or in any vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, any
flares, fusees or signal produced by flame.
(c) No person shall operate any vehicle described in subsection (a) or
(b) upon any highway outside of an urban district or upon a divided highway
at any time when lighted lamps are not required by K.S.A. 8-1703, unless
there shall be carried in such vehicle at least two (2) red flags, not less
than twelve (12) inches square, with standards to support such flags.
(d) Any person who is subject to requirements of any federal agency with
respect to flares, fusees, electric lanterns or warning flags and who is in
compliance with such federal regulations shall be deemed to be in
compliance with the provisions of this section and K.S.A. 8-1745.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1744; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 27; L. 1975, ch. 427,
§ 43; Aug. 15.
Article 17.--UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES
8-1744.Flares or warning devices; vehicles subject to requirements;
use, when required; unlawful acts; compliance with federal requirements.
(a) No person shall operate any truck, bus or truck-tractor, or any
motor vehicle towing a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer eighty (80)
inches or more in width or thirty (30) feet or more in length, upon any
highway outside an urban district or upon any divided highway at any time
from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise unless there
shall be carried in such vehicles the following equipment, except as
provided in subsection (b):
(1) At least three (3) flares or three (3) red electric lanterns or
three (3) portable red emergency reflectors, each of which shall be capable
of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than six hundred
(600) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime.
No flare, fusee, electric lantern or warning flag shall be used for the
purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section, unless such
equipment is of a type which has been submitted to the secretary of
transportation and approved by the secretary. No portable reflector unit
shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this
section, unless it is so designed and constructed as to be capable of
reflecting red light clearly visible from all distances within six hundred
(600) feet to one hundred (100) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at
night when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps, and
unless it is of a type which has been submitted to and approved by the
secretary of transportation.
(2) At least three (3) red-burning fusees, unless red electric lanterns
or red portable emergency reflectors are carried.
(b) No person shall operate at the time and under conditions stated in
subsection (a) any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives
or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or
compressed gases, unless there shall be carried in such vehicle three (3)
red electric lanterns or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors
meeting the requirements of subsection (a), and there shall not be carried
in any said vehicle, or in any vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, any
flares, fusees or signal produced by flame.
(c) No person shall operate any vehicle described in subsection (a) or
(b) upon any highway outside of an urban district or upon a divided highway
at any time when lighted lamps are not required by K.S.A. 8-1703, unless
there shall be carried in such vehicle at least two (2) red flags, not less
than twelve (12) inches square, with standards to support such flags.
(d) Any person who is subject to requirements of any federal agency with
respect to flares, fusees, electric lanterns or warning flags and who is in
compliance with such federal regulations shall be deemed to be in
compliance with the provisions of this section and K.S.A. 8-1745.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1744; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 27; L. 1975, ch. 427,
§ 43; Aug. 15.
Article 17.--UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES
8-1744.Flares or warning devices; vehicles subject to requirements;
use, when required; unlawful acts; compliance with federal requirements.
(a) No person shall operate any truck, bus or truck-tractor, or any
motor vehicle towing a trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer eighty (80)
inches or more in width or thirty (30) feet or more in length, upon any
highway outside an urban district or upon any divided highway at any time
from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise unless there
shall be carried in such vehicles the following equipment, except as
provided in subsection (b):
(1) At least three (3) flares or three (3) red electric lanterns or
three (3) portable red emergency reflectors, each of which shall be capable
of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than six hundred
(600) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime.
No flare, fusee, electric lantern or warning flag shall be used for the
purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section, unless such
equipment is of a type which has been submitted to the secretary of
transportation and approved by the secretary. No portable reflector unit
shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this
section, unless it is so designed and constructed as to be capable of
reflecting red light clearly visible from all distances within six hundred
(600) feet to one hundred (100) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at
night when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps, and
unless it is of a type which has been submitted to and approved by the
secretary of transportation.
(2) At least three (3) red-burning fusees, unless red electric lanterns
or red portable emergency reflectors are carried.
(b) No person shall operate at the time and under conditions stated in
subsection (a) any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives
or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or
compressed gases, unless there shall be carried in such vehicle three (3)
red electric lanterns or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors
meeting the requirements of subsection (a), and there shall not be carried
in any said vehicle, or in any vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, any
flares, fusees or signal produced by flame.
(c) No person shall operate any vehicle described in subsection (a) or
(b) upon any highway outside of an urban district or upon a divided highway
at any time when lighted lamps are not required by K.S.A. 8-1703, unless
there shall be carried in such vehicle at least two (2) red flags, not less
than twelve (12) inches square, with standards to support such flags.
(d) Any person who is subject to requirements of any federal agency with
respect to flares, fusees, electric lanterns or warning flags and who is in
compliance with such federal regulations shall be deemed to be in
compliance with the provisions of this section and K.S.A. 8-1745.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1744; L. 1975, ch. 39, § 27; L. 1975, ch. 427,
§ 43; Aug. 15.