Bill Text: IN HB1347 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Chaplain driving personal vehicle to emergency.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-13 - Public Law 22 [HB1347 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1347-Enrolled.html
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AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.
(1) A full-time police department of a municipality (as defined by IC 36-1-2-11).
(2) A full-time fire department of a municipality (as defined by IC 36-1-2-11).
(b) If a motor vehicle displays lights for use under subsection (a), the motor vehicle must be equipped with either of the
following:
(1) At least two (2) signal lamps capable of displaying a green
beam and a white beam that meet the following requirements:
(A) The signal lamps are mounted as high and as widely
spaced laterally as practicable or mounted in a manner
that will make the lights visible to oncoming traffic one
hundred eighty (180) degrees around the front of the
vehicle.
(B) The signal lamps are capable of displaying to the front
alternately flashing green and white lights.
(C) The signal lamp capable of displaying the green beam
is located on the driver's side of the vehicle and the signal
lamp capable of displaying the white beam is located on the
passenger's side of the vehicle.
(2) One (1) signal lamp that is capable of displaying a green
beam and a white beam in a manner that will make the light
visible to oncoming traffic one hundred eighty (180) degrees
in front of the vehicle.
(c) In order for a chaplain to display green and white lights on
a private motor vehicle, the chaplain must:
(1) secure a written permit from the executive (as defined in
IC 36-1-2-5) of the municipality in which the chaplain serves
to use the green and white lights; and
(2) carry the permit at all times when the green and white
lights are displayed.
(d) A permittee of the owner of a motor vehicle lawfully
equipped with green and white lights as set forth in subsection (b)
may operate the motor vehicle only if the green and white lights
are not illuminated.
(e) This section does not grant a motor vehicle displaying green
and white lights the right-of-way under IC 9-21-8-35 or an
exemption from traffic rules under IC 9-21-1-8. A driver of a
motor vehicle displaying green and white lights shall obey all
traffic rules.
(f) This section may not be construed to include a motor vehicle:
(1) displaying green and white lights; and
(2) driven by a chaplain as an authorized emergency vehicle
(as defined by IC 9-13-2-6).
lights of any size or shape commits a Class C infraction.
(b) Except as provided in section 1.5 of this chapter, a person
who displays on any public or private motor vehicle at any time
flashing green and white lights of any size or shape commits a
Class C infraction.
(b) This chapter does not prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle lawfully equipped with flashing green and white lights from being operated as any other motor vehicle when the green and white lights are not illuminated.
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