625 ILCS 5/12-702
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 625 - VEHICLES|625 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Vehicle Code.|Chapter 12 - Equipment Of Vehicles

 (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-702)Sec. 12-702.     Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices.(a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle of the second division  weighing more than 8,000 pounds or any vehicle of the second division  weighing 8,000 pounds or less towing a trailer or  any motor vehicle towing a house trailer upon any highway outside an urban  district at any time unless there is carried in such vehicle the following  equipment, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section:1. At least 3 liquid-burning flares, or 3 red     electric lanterns or 3 portable red emergency reflectors, each of which is capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than 500 feet when lighted lamps are required, provided that emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125 shall be deemed acceptable as regards visibility and color; and2. At least 3 red-burning 15-minute fusees unless red     electric lanterns or portable red emergency reflectors are carried; and3. At least 2 red-cloth flags, not less than 12     inches square, with standards to support flags or in lieu thereof, 2 portable emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125.(b) No person shall operate at the time and under the conditions stated  in paragraph (a) of this Section any motor vehicle used for the  transportation of explosives, any cargo tank truck used for the  transportation of flammable liquids or compressed gases or any motor  vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel unless there is carried in such  vehicle 3 red electric lanterns or 3 portable red emergency reflectors  meeting the requirements of paragraph (a) of this Section, and such vehicle  shall not carry any flares, fusees or signals produced by flame.(c) Whenever any motor vehicle of the second division weighing more than  8,000 pounds or any vehicle of the second division weighing 8,000 pounds or  less towing a trailer or any motor  vehicle towing a house trailer is disabled upon the roadway of any highway  or the shoulder thereof outside an urban district or on any controlled  access highway within an urban district at any time when lighted lamps are  required, the driver of such vehicle shall display the following warning  devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled, except  as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section:1. A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern or     a portable red emergency reflector shall be immediately placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. However, the driver of such vehicle upon learning of the disability may simultaneously flash the 2 front and 2 rear turn signals as a vehicular traffic warning and continue such flashing until the portable signals have been placed as required by this Section and during the time such portable emergency signals are being picked up for storage prior to the movement of the vehicle.2. As soon thereafter as possible, but in any event     within the burning period of the fusee (15 minutes), the driver shall place 3 liquid-burning flares, or 3 lighted red electric lanterns or 3 portable red emergency reflectors on the roadway or shoulder of the highway in the following order:One approximately 100 feet from the disabled vehicle     in the center of the lane or shoulder occupied by such vehicle and toward traffic approaching in that lane; andOne approximately 100 feet in the opposite direction     from the disabled vehicle and in the center of the traffic lane or shoulder occupied by such vehicle; andOne at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle not     less than 10 feet to the rear or forward thereof in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. If a lighted red electric lantern or a portable red emergency reflector has been placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in accordance with paragraph (c) (1) of this Section, it may be used for this purpose.(d) Whenever any vehicle referred to in this Section is disabled within  500 feet of a curve, hill crest or other obstruction to view, the warning  signal in that direction shall be so placed as to afford ample warning to  other users of the highway, but in no case less than 100 feet nor more than  500 feet from the disabled vehicle.(e) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this Section is  disabled upon any roadway or shoulder of a divided highway during the time  that lighted lamps are required, the appropriate warning devices prescribed  in paragraph (a) (1) and (2) of this Section shall be placed as follows:One at a distance of approximately 200 feet from the vehicle in the  center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the stopped vehicle and in the  direction of traffic approaching in that lane; andOne at a distance of approximately 100 feet from the vehicle in the  center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle and in the direction  of traffic approaching in that lane; andOne at the traffic side of the vehicle and approximately 10 feet from  the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic.(f) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this Section is  disabled upon the roadway of any highway or the shoulder thereof outside an  urban district or on any controlled access highway within an urban district  at any time when the display of fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or  portable red emergency reflectors are not required, the driver of the  vehicle shall display 2 red-cloth flags or 2 portable emergency reflectors  meeting the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125  upon the roadway or shoulder in the lane of traffic occupied by the  disabled vehicle in the following order:One at a distance of approximately 100 feet in advance of the vehicle;  andOne at a distance of approximately 100 feet in the rear of the vehicle.(g) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this Section is  disabled upon any roadway or shoulder of a divided highway during the time  that lighted lamps are not required, the driver of such vehicle shall  display 2 red-cloth flags or 2 portable emergency reflectors meeting the  requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125 upon the  roadway or shoulder in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the  disabled vehicle in the following order:One at a distance of approximately 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle;  andOne at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle.(h) Whenever any motor vehicle used for the transportation of  explosives, or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of any  flammable liquid or compressed flammable gas or any motor vehicle using  compressed gas as a fuel is disabled upon a highway of this State at any  time or place mentioned in paragraph (c) of this Section, the driver of  such vehicle shall immediately display 3 red electric lanterns or portable  red emergency reflectors placed in the following order:One at the traffic side of the vehicle and approximately 10 feet from  the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic; andOne at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the front of the disabled  vehicle in the center of the lane of traffic or shoulder occupied by such  vehicle; andOne at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the disabled  vehicle in the center of the lane of traffic or shoulder occupied by such  vehicle. Flares, fusees or signals produced by flame shall not be used as  warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in this  paragraph.(i) The flares, fusees, red electric lanterns, portable red emergency  reflectors and flags to be displayed as required in this Section shall  conform with the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section  applicable thereto.    (Source: P.A. 89-687, eff. 6-1-97.)