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NH Rev Stat § 266:78-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-a - Definitions.

    266:78-a Definitions. –||I. In this section:||(a) "Emergency light" means a steady burning, oscillating, rotating, or flashing red or blue colored light.||(b) "Warning light" means a steady burning, oscillating, rotating, or flashing amber light or arrow board or white colored light.||II. Original equipment or aftermarket amber or white directional signals and red tail lamps and stop lamps used to signal turns and as hazard warning lamps shall be excluded from the definition of emergency lights and warning lights.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-b - Blue Lights Restricted to Law Enforcement, State Department of Corrections, and Emergency Response.

    266:78-b Blue Lights Restricted to Law Enforcement, State Department of Corrections, and Emergency Response. –||I. No person other than a sworn law enforcement officer with power of arrest, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall operate a vehicle equipped with blue colored lights, except in the case of a service technician driving the vehicle in connection with servicing or maintaining the vehicle or as provided under paragraph II.||II. No person other than a sworn law enforcement officer with power of arrest, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties or an emergency response employee or volunteer of a city, town, or village district or the federal government or an employee of a private ambulance service contracted with a city, town, or village district shall operate a vehicle equipped with a rear-facing blue colored light, except in the case of a service technician driving the vehicle in connection with servicing or maintaining the vehicle.||III. Blue colored lights are authorized only for vehicles owned or leased by state, county, municipal, or federal law enforcement agencies, state department of corrections, fire marshal vehicles, emergency response vehicles owned or leased by city, town, village district, or federal fire departments, forestry departments, or emergency medical departments, or emergency response vehicles owned or leased by a private ambulance service contracted with a city, town, or village district and vehicles privately owned or leased by sworn law enforcement officers when authorized by their department heads. When blue colored lights are installed on a private vehicle owned by or leased to a law enforcement officer, such lights shall be covered when the vehicle is being driven by someone other than a law enforcement officer. A blue colored light installed on emergency response vehicles other than those vehicles used by a sworn law enforcement officer, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall be limited to a single, rear-facing blue colored emergency light on each vehicle. A private ambulance service that is no longer contracted with a city, town, or village district shall remove the single rear-facing blue colored light upon the expiration of the contract.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2015, 130:1, eff. June 12, 2015. 2019, 156:3, eff. Aug. 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-c - Red Lights Restricted to Police, Fire, and Rescue Vehicles.

    266:78-c Red Lights Restricted to Police, Fire, and Rescue Vehicles. –||No person other than those authorized in this section shall operate a vehicle equipped with red colored emergency lights. Red lights are authorized for the following vehicles:||I. Emergency response vehicles owned or leased by municipal, village district, or federal fire departments and forestry departments.||II. Vehicles privately owned or leased by full-time or volunteer firefighters employed by municipal, village district, or federal fire departments and forestry departments or forest fire wardens and deputy wardens when authorized by their department heads.||III. Licensed public or private ambulances and emergency medical response and rescue vehicles, and members of licensed ambulance and emergency medical response and rescue crews when authorized by their employers.||IV. Federal or state emergency management response vehicles, airport authority emergency response vehicles, and government vehicles used in response to reports of emergencies resulting from actual or potential releases, spills, or leaks of or other exposure to hazardous substances.||V. Hospital emergency personnel with a permit from the commissioner of safety issued under rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the qualifications and conditions of such a permit and grounds for revoking it.||VI. Red lights as part of, but not in place of, the emergency warning systems of police vehicles.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-d - Additional Lights Approved for Police, Fire, State Department of Corrections, and Rescue Vehicles.

    266:78-d Additional Lights Approved for Police, Fire, State Department of Corrections, and Rescue Vehicles. –||Police, fire, state department of corrections, and emergency medical response vehicles, in addition to but not in place of the lights authorized by RSA 266:78-b and RSA 266:78-c, may be equipped with light bars containing one or more amber warning lights or amber arrow boards.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2019, 156:4, eff. Aug. 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-e - Other Flashing Lamps Prohibited.

    266:78-e Other Flashing Lamps Prohibited. –||Only authorized emergency vehicles, including law enforcement, fire, state department of corrections, and emergency medical services vehicles, state department of transportation vehicles engaged in construction or maintenance activities, and bicycles may be equipped with a device that provides for alternate flashing of headlamps.|||Source. 2008, 358:12. 2009, 168:1, eff. July 8, 2009. 2018, 46:3, eff. July 14, 2018. 2019, 156:5, eff. Aug. 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-f - Use of Lights by Law Enforcement and State Department of Corrections.

    266:78-f Use of Lights by Law Enforcement and State Department of Corrections. –||Law enforcement officers, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall only illuminate emergency lights and warning lights when in pursuit or stopping a violator, when responding to but not returning from an emergency call for service, when conducting an escort, or when parked on or adjacent to the highway to warn other traffic of a hazard or obstruction. Except as provided for under RSA 266:78-b, II, no person other than a sworn law enforcement officer, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall drive a vehicle with a blue light or lights in operation.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2015, 130:2, eff. June 12, 2015. 2019, 156:6, eff. Aug. 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-g - Use of Lights by Fire, State Department of Corrections, Rescue, and Emergency Response Personnel.

    266:78-g Use of Lights by Fire, State Department of Corrections, Rescue, and Emergency Response Personnel. –||Police, fire, ambulance, state department of corrections, and rescue vehicles, and other vehicles authorized under RSA 266:78-c shall only illuminate emergency lights and warning lights when responding to but not returning from an actual or reported emergency, transporting a patient to a hospital for emergency treatment, or when parked at the scene of an emergency for purposes of warning approaching traffic. Fire apparatus and ambulances may also illuminate emergency lights and warning lights while parking or backing the vehicle to access a garage housing the apparatus or when serving as a mobile command post to designate the location of the command post. No persons other than emergency response personnel shall drive a vehicle with red emergency lights in operation.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2019, 156:7, eff. Aug. 30, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-h - Amber Warning Lights Authorized for Certain Vehicles.

    266:78-h Amber Warning Lights Authorized for Certain Vehicles. –||No person other than those authorized in this section or in RSA 266:78-c shall operate a vehicle equipped with amber colored warning lights. Amber warning lights are authorized for the following vehicles:||I. Vehicles owned by or leased to state, county, or municipal public works departments and used to maintain the highways including, but not limited to, pickup trucks, snow plows, graders, loaders, sand trucks, sweepers, and tar trucks.||II. Vehicles used by telephone, electrical, and cable utilities and tree services for maintenance of utility, sewer, and water lines.||III. United States Postal Service delivery vehicles.||IV. Wreckers and emergency highway service vehicles.||V. Vehicles escorting oversize loads.||VI. Privately owned vehicles used for snow removal on or adjacent to ways.||VII. Refuse collection vehicles and compacters.||VIII. Vehicles owned by or leased to contractors and construction companies and regularly used to provide warning of road obstructions or hazards at road or utility construction sites.||IX. Such other vehicles as may be authorized by the director.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-i (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-i - Use of Amber Lights.

    266:78-i Use of Amber Lights. –||Vehicles authorized to use amber colored warning lights authorized by RSA 266:78-h may only illuminate the warning lights when their duties require them to be stopped or parked on or immediately adjacent to a way at a road, water, or sewer line construction or maintenance site in a manner that may impede or cause a hazard to traffic, when actively engaged in the delivery of United States mail, or when actively engaged in snow removal or ice treatment or when entering or leaving a way during plowing operations, or during repair or placement of official traffic control devices, pavement marking, or escorting an oversize load or slow moving vehicle, or in the case of wreckers and emergency road service vehicles when maneuvering through congested traffic to reach a disabled vehicle, providing roadside service, or loading or unloading a vehicle.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2018, 66:1, eff. July 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-j (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-j - Wing Lights on Snowplows.

    266:78-j Wing Lights on Snowplows. –||Snowplows may use amber or white wing lights to illuminate the wings of the snowplow when the plow is in operation. A white or amber light mounted on or adjacent to a salt or sand spreader may be used when the spreader is in operation.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-k (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-k - School Buses.

    266:78-k School Buses. –||School buses shall be equipped with warning lights and stop signals only as provided in RSA 266:39.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-l (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-l - Private Security Vehicles.

    266:78-l Private Security Vehicles. –||Vehicles owned by or leased to licensed public or private security services but not personally owned vehicles of security guards may be equipped with amber or green warning lights, which shall only be illuminated when patrolling a shopping center or mall parking lot or other private premises or if stopped in a hazardous location for the purposes of warning approaching traffic.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-m (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-m - Funeral Escort and Lead Vehicles.

    266:78-m Funeral Escort and Lead Vehicles. –||Funeral escort and lead vehicles may be equipped with purple warning lights only as provided in RSA 265:156.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-n (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-n - Parade Use.

    266:78-n Parade Use. –||Vehicles operating in a parade or celebration may display emergency lights or warning lights.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-o (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-o - Emergency and Warning Lights; Duties of Official Inspection Stations.

    266:78-o Emergency and Warning Lights;  Duties of Official Inspection Stations. –||I. Official inspection stations shall not issue an inspection sticker to a vehicle equipped with emergency lights or warning lights except as authorized in this subdivision. No permit shall be required for such lights if equipped in accordance with this subdivision.||II. Public safety and emergency medical personnel presenting their privately owned vehicles for inspection shall present to the person conducting the inspection an official departmental photo identification or an official identification card or badge from their department. A letter on official stationery from their employer signed by the head of the organization authorizing the lights shall be carried in the vehicle and displayed to any law enforcement officer upon request. Failure to display such authorization shall be prima facie evidence that the vehicle was equipped in violation of this subdivision.||III. The commissioner of safety, by rule adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A, may determine the location and method of use of emergency lights and warning lights.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-p (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-p - Revocation of Privilege.

    266:78-p Revocation of Privilege. –||The use of emergency lights or warning lights on personally owned or leased vehicles of public safety personnel may be revoked at any time by their department heads or emergency response employers by notifying the person in writing with a copy to the director. The director, upon a finding after a hearing that any user of emergency lights or warning lights has violated this subdivision, may revoke the authority to equip a vehicle with emergency lights or warning lights.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-q (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-q - Penalties.

    266:78-q Penalties. –||Any person convicted of a violation of this subdivision shall, notwithstanding the provisions of title LXII, be guilty of a violation and fined $250 plus penalty assessment for a first offense and not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 plus penalty assessment for a second offense, and any person knowingly or purposely using blue lights to commit a crime punishable as a misdemeanor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person knowingly or purposely using blue lights to commit a crime punishable as a felony shall be guilty of a class B felony. The director or the court may suspend or revoke for a period of not less than 30 days the license or driving privilege of any person convicted of violating this subdivision.|||Source. 2008, 358:12, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2015, 202:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:78-r (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:78-r - Vehicle Formerly Used as Ambulance to Have Identifying Features Removed.

    266:78-r Vehicle Formerly Used as Ambulance to Have Identifying Features Removed. –||Prior to driving on the ways of the state, a vehicle which was formerly used as an ambulance or rescue vehicle but is no longer licensed as an ambulance under RSA 153-A, a person shall remove any siren, red forward and side emergency lights, gold lettering, red cross, caduceus, or other medical insignia, "Keep back 500 feet," "Emergency," "Ambulance," "Rescue," or other lettering or insignia that might cause the vehicle to be mistaken for a working ambulance or rescue vehicle. This section shall not apply to vehicles owned or leased by state, county, or municipal emergency response agencies, the American Red Cross, duly registered antique vehicles, or licensed transporting EMS agencies.|||Source. 2015, 63:1, eff. Aug. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:79 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:79 - to 266:84 Repealed by 1981, 538:11, XIX, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m.

    266:79 to 266:84 Repealed by 1981, 538:11, XIX, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m. –|
NH Rev Stat § 266:85 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:85 - Application of Chapter to Bicycles.

    266:85 Application of Chapter to Bicycles. –||No preceding provision of this chapter shall apply to bicycles nor to equipment for use on bicycles unless a provision has been made specifically applicable to bicycles or their equipment.|||Source. 1981, 479:57, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:86 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:86 - Headlamp Required at Night.

    266:86 Headlamp Required at Night. –||Every bicycle operated upon any way during darkness shall be equipped with a lamp emitting a white light visible from a distance of 300 feet in front of the bicycle and with a red reflector on the rear of a type approved by the director, which shall be visible from a distance of 300 feet to the rear when directly in front of the lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. A lamp emitting a red light visible from 300 feet to the rear may be used in addition to the red reflector. Every moped driven upon any way during darkness shall be equipped with one headlamp which meets the specifications for headlamps established in RSA 266:31. Taillamps and stop lamps are required on mopeds.|||Source. RSA 250:11-d. 1971, 319:1. 1981, 146:1; 479:57, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:87 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:87 - Pedal Reflectors and Reflective Equipment Required.

    266:87 Pedal Reflectors and Reflective Equipment Required. –||I. No person shall operate a bicycle, except for a bicycle equipped with clipless pedals, or moped unless such bicycle or moped has pedals equipped with a reflector of a type approved by the director which conform to 49 CFR 571.108 Table 2 and which shall be visible from the front and rear of the bicycle or moped from a distance of 200 feet during darkness.||II. No person, during darkness, shall operate a bicycle equipped with clipless pedals unless the operator is wearing either reflectorized leg bands on the lower exterior of the operator's legs or some other type of light reflective equipment on the exterior of either the operator's legs or shoes.|||Source. RSA 250:11-e. 1971, 319:1. 1981, 146:1; 479:57. 1983, 431:14. 2000, 126:1, eff. July 7, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:88 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:88 - Brake Required.

    266:88 Brake Required. –||Every bicycle and moped shall be equipped with a brake or brakes which will enable its driver to stop the bicycle or moped within 25 feet from a speed of 10 miles per hour on dry, level, clean pavement.|||Source. RSA 250:11-a. 1971, 319:1. 1981, 146:1; 479:57, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:89 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:89 - Sirens Prohibited.

    266:89 Sirens Prohibited. –||No bicycle or moped shall be equipped with a siren, nor shall any person on a bicycle or moped use a siren.|||Source. 1981, 479:57, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:90 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:90 - to 266:107 Repealed by 1981, 568:144, eff. July 1, 1981.

    266:90 to 266:107 Repealed by 1981, 568:144, eff. July 1, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 266:108 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:108 - Wrecker Safety Chains.

    266:108 Wrecker Safety Chains. –||Every wrecker shall be equipped with an additional safety chain with minimum requirements of 3/8 inch HY-TEST chain for towed vehicles up to and including 11,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, and 1/2 inch HY-TEST chain for towed vehicles over 11,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. This safety chain shall be used at all times when the wrecker has a vehicle in tow upon a way, for the purpose of keeping the towed vehicle under control in the event the normal hook-up malfunctions. All wreckers shall operate within the recommended manufacturer's safety policies and procedures.|||Source. 1986, 216:4. 1987, 404:18, eff. July 25, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 266:109 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 266 - Equipment of Vehicles|Section 266:109 - Special Wrecker Lighting Required.

    266:109 Special Wrecker Lighting Required. –||Every wrecker shall be equipped with:||I. Two additional stop and directional lamps placed so as to be readily visible to traffic from the rear at all times. The towed vehicle shall be equipped with portable lamps to conform with RSA 266:36. In the case of a vehicle designed to carry motor vehicles on the bed of the vehicle, however, the additional stop and directional lamps shall not be required. Any vehicle being towed by a vehicle which is designed to carry motor vehicles on the bed of the vehicle shall be equipped with portable stop and directional lamps and portable lamps to conform with RSA 266:36.||II. One or more rotating or flashing amber colored emergency lamps so placed as to be clearly visible.||(a) Said amber colored lights shall be illuminated when the roadside service being rendered to another vehicle presents an actual or potential hazard to the public or to the occupants of the disabled vehicle.||(b) Such emergency lights shall not be used at any other time unless otherwise prescribed or required by law.||(c) Such emergency lights shall comply with the provisions of RSA 266:78-a through RSA 266:78-q and any rules adopted thereunder pursuant to RSA 541-A.|||Source. 1986, 216:4. 1987, 404:11. 1989, 305:19. 2008, 358:15, eff. Sept. 9, 2008. 2018, 66:2, eff. July 24, 2018.|