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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.020 - Headlights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, a motor vehicle must be equipped with at least two headlights, one on
				  each side of the front of the motor vehicle. The headlights must emit white
				  light to the front of the vehicle, comply with the requirements and limitations
				  set out in this section, and be mounted at a height of not more than 54 inches
				  or less than 24 inches.
(b)
				  Repealed 6/28/79.
(c) Repealed
				  6/28/79.
(d) Repealed
				  6/28/79.
(e) When a motor vehicle
				  is driven on a highway during the times specified in sec. 10 of this chapter,
				  the driver shall use a high distribution of light or composite beam, directed
				  at a height and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a
				  distance of 450 feet in advance of the vehicle for all load conditions, subject
				  to the following requirements and limitations:
(1) when the driver of a vehicle approaches
				  an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet, the driver shall use a distribution of
				  light, or composite beam, so that the glaring or high-intensity portion of the
				  light is not projected into the eyes of the oncoming driver; the light must be
				  of sufficient intensity to reveal a person or a vehicle at a distance of 150
				  feet in advance of the vehicle for all load conditions; and
(2) when the driver of a vehicle approaches
				  another vehicle from the rear, within 300 feet, the approaching driver may not
				  use the highest distribution of light.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.025 - Taillights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with at least two taillights mounted at the
				  same level, as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and as low as
				  practicable, but not less than 20 inches above the roadway on the rear, so that
				  when lighted emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of 1000 feet to
				  the rear. Passenger cars manufactured or assembled before January 1, 1958, must
				  have at least one taillight.
(b)
				  Repealed 6/28/79.
(c) Either a
				  taillight or a separate light must illuminate, with a white light, the rear
				  registration plate, so that it is clearly visible from a distance of 50 feet to
				  the rear. The light must be wired so as to be illuminated when the headlights
				  or auxiliary driving lights are illuminated.
(d) Vehicles with illuminated daytime running
				  lamps that meet the standards in  49 C.F.R. 571  (revised as of August 29, 1996)
				  are exempt from illuminating taillights when daytime running lamps are
				  permitted to be used under this chapter.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.030 - Reflectors

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, a vehicle must have on the rear, either as a part of the taillights or
				  separately, two or more red reflectors mounted at a height not less than 20
				  inches, except that if the highest part of the permanent structure of the
				  vehicle is less than 24 inches, the reflector must be mounted as high as that
				  part of the permanent structure will permit. The reflectors must be as widely
				  spaced laterally as practicable, and be visible at night from all distances
				  within 600 feet of the vehicle.
(b)
				  Repealed 6/28/79.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.035 - Stop lights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with two or more stop lights meeting the
				  requirements of (c) of this section, except that passenger cars manufactured or
				  assembled before January 1, 1958, must be equipped with at least one stop
				  light. On a combination of vehicles, only the stop lights on the rearmost
				  vehicle need actually be seen from the distance specified in (c) of this
				  section.
(b) Repealed
				  6/28/79.
(c) The stop light or
				  lights required in (a) of this section must be mounted on the rear of the
				  vehicle and must display a red light, or a shade of red, visible from a
				  distance of at least 300 feet to the rear in normal sunlight. The lights must
				  be illuminated by application of the service or foot brake.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.037 - Turn lights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with electric turn signal lights meeting
				  the requirements of (b) of this section, except that passenger cars and trucks
				  less than 80 inches in width, and manufactured or assembled before January 1,
				  1953, need not be equipped with electric turn signal lights.
(b) When required under this section, a
				  vehicle must be equipped with electric turn signal lights which indicate an
				  intention to turn by flashing lights showing to the front and rear of the
				  vehicle on the side of the vehicle toward which the turn is to be made, and
				  visible from a distance of at least 500 feet in sunlight. The lights showing to
				  the front must be mounted on the same level, as widely spaced laterally as
				  practicable and, when signaling, must emit yellow light except that on a
				  vehicle manufactured before January 1, 1969, the lights showing to the front
				  may emit white or yellow light, or a shade of light between white and yellow.
				  The lights showing to the rear must be mounted on the same level, as widely
				  spaced laterally as practicable and, when signaling, must emit a red or yellow
				  light, or a shade of light between red and yellow.
(c) A motor vehicle must be equipped with
				  electric turn signal lights as provided in (b) of this section when the
				  distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the left outside
				  limit of the body, cab or load of the motor vehicle exceeds 24 inches, or when
				  the distance from the center of the top of the steering post to the rear limit
				  of the body or load of the vehicle exceeds 14 feet.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.040 - Additional lighting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a)
Buses,
				  Trucks, Trailers, Mobile Homes, Motor Homes, and Motor Vehicles with Truck
				  Camper.
Except as otherwise provided in (g) of this section and in
				  addition to other equipment required in this chapter, a bus, truck, trailer,
				  mobile home, motor home, or motor vehicle in combination with a mounted
				  truck-camper which is part of the permanent structure of the vehicle upon which
				  it is mounted, which is 80 inches or more in overall width, must be equipped
				  with
(1) one clearance light on each side of
				  the front for the display of yellow light, except as otherwise provided for
				  boat trailers in (d) of this section;
(2) one clearance light on each side of the
				  rear for the display of red light;
(3) two side marker lights on each side, one
				  yellow light at or near the front and one red light at or near the rear;
				  and
(4) two reflectors on each
				  side, one yellow reflector at or near the front and one red reflector at or
				  near the rear.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.070 - Parking lights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A vehicle must be equipped with one or
				  more lights which, when illuminated, display a white or yellow light visible
				  from a distance of 1000 feet to the front of the vehicle and a red light
				  visible from a distance of 1000 feet to the rear of the vehicle. The light or
				  lights must be located so that at least one light or combination of lights
				  meeting the requirements of this section is installed as near as practicable to
				  the side of the vehicle which is closest to passing traffic.
(b) Parking lights need not be displayed when
				  a vehicle is lawfully parked or stopped along or upon a highway as follows:
(1) on a city street or alley or on a highway
				  within an urban area which is of sufficient width to allow parking without
				  hazard to other vehicular traffic on the roadway;
(2) on a highway outside an urban area when
				  the side of the parked vehicle nearest the roadway is at least eight feet from
				  the roadway; or
(3) on a highway
				  when there is sufficient artificial light to reveal a person or vehicle within
				  a distance of 1000 feet upon the highway.
(4) repealed 6/28/79.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.075 - Lamps on farm tractor, road tractor, farm equipment and implement of husbandry (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.090 - Authorized emergency vehicles

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Every
				  authorized emergency vehicle must, in addition to other equipment required by
				  this chapter, be equipped with a signal light mounted as high as practicable,
				  and which is capable of displaying to the front and rear flashing red color of
				  sufficient intensity to be visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight. The flashing
				  light must be sufficiently spaced from the headlights so that it will not be
				  blacked out when the headlights are illuminated. An authorized emergency
				  vehicle may display rotating beams of red light or of red and white light
				  meeting the requirements of this subsection.
(b) Repealed 6/28/79.
(c) A police vehicle, when used as an
				  authorized emergency vehicle, may but need not be equipped with alternately
				  flashing red lights as specified in (a) of this section.
(d) Repealed 6/28/79.
(e) Repealed 6/28/79.
(f) Repealed 6/28/79.
(g) If, in addition to the light required in
				  (a) of this section, a second or subsequent light is mounted on the authorized
				  emergency vehicle, the light must be mounted as high as practicable and at the
				  same level as the first light. The lights must be as widely spaced laterally as
				  practicable, and must meet the spacing and visibility requirements of (a) of
				  this section. The second light may display flashing blue color in accordance
				  with sec. 100 of this chapter.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.095 - Flashing yellow vehicular hazard warning lights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed
				  6/28/79.
(b) Repealed
				  6/28/79.
(c) The following vehicles
				  must be equipped with a flashing yellow warning light visible at 500 feet in
				  normal sunlight to either the front, rear or sides or from all positions:
(1) a vehicle of the Department of
				  Transportation and Public Facilities, a municipality, or a contractor used in
				  highway maintenance, inspection, survey or construction when working upon or
				  within eight feet of a roadway;
(2)
				  a vehicle of a public utility company, when actually engaged in the
				  construction, removal, repair, maintenance or inspection of a public utility
				  facility and when parked or moving slower than the normal traffic flow upon or
				  within eight feet of a roadway;
(3)
				  a motor vehicle engaged in towing a house or a building upon a
				  highway;
(4) a pilot car as
				  provided in
				  17 AAC 25.090; and
(5) a motor vehicle engaged in snow removal
				  from private property when it moves onto, across or within eight feet of a
				  roadway while removing the snow, or a motor vehicle engaged in snow removal
				  from subdivision streets.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.097 - Special school bus lighting equipment

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A school bus
				  must, in addition to other equipment and distinctive markings required by this
				  chapter, be equipped with signal lights mounted as high and as widely spaced
				  laterally as practicable, which must display to the front two alternately
				  flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear two alternately
				  flashing red lights located at the same level. The lights must be visible at
				  500 feet in normal sunlight. The alternately flashing red lights must be
				  illuminated by the driver of the school bus when, but only when, the bus is
				  stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, except
				  that the lights may not be illuminated in
(1)
				  a designated school bus loading or unloading area where the bus is entirely off
				  the roadway and a child being received into or discharged from the bus is not
				  required to cross the roadway; or
(2) an intersection or other place where
				  traffic is controlled by a traffic-control signal or by a police
				  officer.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.100 - Flashing blue lights on vehicles

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A firefighter,
				  an emergency medical service responder, or a police officer, with the
				  concurrence of the chief of that person's department, when authorized under
				  13 AAC 02.517 or (i) of this
				  section, may equip the person's motor vehicle with a flashing blue light that
				  must be visible from the front and sides for a distance of 300 feet in normal
				  sunlight. The flashing blue light authorized by this subsection may be
				  illuminated only when the driver of the vehicle is a member of a fire or a
				  police department responding to an emergency, and the vehicle must display a
				  sign or plate that indicates the department membership and the name of the
				  municipality or organization in which the driver is a member.
(b) Repealed 6/28/79.
(c) Repealed 6/28/79.
(d) Repealed 6/28/79.
(e) Police and public fire vehicles may not
				  use a flashing blue light except simultaneously with a flashing red light as
				  required in sec. 90 of this chapter.
(f) Vehicles, except those vehicles described
				  in (e) of this section, that are owned or operated by the state or a
				  municipality may not use a flashing blue light except simultaneously with a
				  flashing yellow light and in accordance with
				  13 AAC 04.095.
(g) A person certified by a state agency to
				  render emergency lifesaving or medical services, when authorized by the
				  commissioner, may equip his private vehicle with a flashing blue light meeting
				  the visibility requirements of (a) of this section, for use only when
				  responding to an emergency. The flashing blue light may not be illuminated
				  except when the driver of the vehicle is properly certified to render emergency
				  lifesaving or medical services and his vehicle displays the "star of life"
				  symbol.
(h) Lights displaying blue
				  color may not be used upon vehicles, except as provided in this
				  section.
(i) A fire chief, an
				  emergency medical service provider, or a police chief of a municipality or
				  borough that has been granted authority in writing by the commissioner may
				  authorize a person to equip the person's motor vehicle with a flashing blue
				  light if
(1) the person completes and returns
				  to the commissioner or the commissioner's designee on a signed and notarized
				  form prepared by the department a certification that
(A) the person's motor vehicle complies with
				  the equipment standards set out in 13 AAC 04;
(B) the person holds a valid Alaska driver's
				  license that has not been suspended, revoked, cancelled, or limited within the
				  three years before the form is returned; and
(C) the person has read and understands the
				  regulations for emergency vehicle operation set out in
				  13 AAC 02.140,
				  13 AAC 02.517 and
				  13 AAC 04.100; and
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 2 - Lighting Equipment › 13 AAC 04.145 - Restrictions on lighting equipment

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When a motor
				  vehicle equipped with headlights as required in this chapter is also equipped
				  with an auxiliary light, spotlight, or other light on the front of the vehicle
				  which projects a beam of intensity greater than 300 candlepower, no more than a
				  total of four lights on the front of a vehicle may be illuminated at any time
				  when there is approaching traffic. An auxiliary light must comply with the
				  applicable mounting and visibility requirements of sec. 15 of this
				  chapter.
(b) Except as provided in
				  secs. 37, 40, and 90 - 100 of this chapter, no person may drive or move a
				  vehicle upon a highway displaying
(1) a red
				  light visible from directly in front of the center of the vehicle;
(2) a flashing or rotating light;
				  or
(3) an alternately flashing
				  light.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.205 - Brakes

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this
				  chapter, every motor vehicle and every combination of vehicles must have a
				  service braking system which will stop the vehicle or combination of vehicles
				  within 40 feet from an initial speed of 20 miles per hour on a level, dry,
				  smooth, clear, hard surface, except that a passenger car or other single-unit
				  vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or
				  less must be able to stop within 25 feet from an initial speed of 20 miles per
				  hour on a similar surface.
(b) A
				  motor vehicle or combination of vehicles, except a motor-driven cycle or
				  bicycle, must have a parking brake system adequate to hold the vehicle or
				  combination of vehicles on any grade on which driven under all conditions of
				  loading, on a surface free from snow, ice, or loose material.
(c) A motor vehicle or combination of
				  vehicles must comply with applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards
				  adopted by the United States Department of Transportation.
(d) No driver may operate a motor vehicle on
				  a public roadway or other vehicular way, towing a vehicle with a GVWR greater
				  than 5,000 pounds, unless the following conditions are met:
(1) the towed vehicle must have operating
				  brakes on at least two wheels on each side of a three axle vehicle, or one
				  wheel on each side of a double or single axle vehicle;
(2) the towed vehicle requiring brakes must
				  be equipped with an operating, breakaway system capable of applying all
				  required brakes in the event of separation from the towing vehicle;
				  and
(3) the towing vehicle must be
				  of sufficient size and weight to safely control the towed vehicle.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.210 - Horns and warning devices

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A motor vehicle
				  operated upon a highway or other vehicular way or area, except for snowmobiles,
				  must be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting
				  sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of at least 200 feet, but
				  no horn or other warning device may emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or
				  a whistle. The driver of a motor vehicle shall, when reasonably necessary to
				  insure safe operation, give audible warning with his horn, but may not
				  otherwise use the horn when upon a highway or other vehicular way or
				  area.
(b) No vehicle may be
				  equipped with, nor may a person use, a siren, whistle, or bell, except as
				  otherwise permitted in this section.
(c) A vehicle may be equipped with a theft
				  alarm signal device, which is installed so that it cannot be used by the driver
				  as an ordinary warning signal. A theft alarm signal device may use a whistle,
				  bell, horn or other audible signal, but may not use a siren.
(d) Every authorized emergency vehicle must
				  be equipped with a siren, whistle or bell capable of emitting sound audible
				  under normal conditions from a distance of at least 500 feet; the siren may be
				  used only when the emergency vehicle is operated in response to an emergency
				  call or is in the immediate pursuit of a suspected violator of the law. The
				  driver of the emergency vehicle shall sound the siren when reasonably necessary
				  to warn pedestrians and other drivers of its approach.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.215 - Noise prevention; mufflers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A motor vehicle
				  must be equipped, maintained, and operated so as to prevent excessive or
				  unusual noise and the escape of fumes into the vehicle. A motor vehicle must be
				  equipped with a muffler or other effective noise-suppressing system in good
				  working order and in constant operation. No person may use a muffler cutout,
				  bypass, or similar device, or modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in a
				  manner which amplifies or increases the noise emitted by the engine of the
				  vehicle above that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle
				  for use on the highway or a vehicular way or area. A person may not alter an
				  exhaust particle emission system built into a motor vehicle to decrease its
				  effectiveness.
(b) The engine and
				  power mechanism of a motor vehicle must be equipped and adjusted to prevent the
				  escape of excessive fumes or smoke.
(c) Repealed 6/28/79.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.220 - Mirrors

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A motor vehicle must be equipped with a
				  mirror mounted on the left side of the vehicle; every motor vehicle except a
				  motor-driven cycle, bicycle, or off-highway vehicle, must be equipped with a
				  mirror mounted either inside the vehicle approximately in the center, or
				  outside the vehicle on the right side.
(b) The following motor vehicles must be
				  equipped with mirrors on both the left and right sides of the vehicle:
(1) a bus or school bus;
(2) a motor vehicle constructed, loaded or
				  designed to be loaded in a manner which obstructs the driver's view through the
				  rear window; or
(3) a motor vehicle
				  towing a vehicle when the towed vehicle or its load obstructs the driver's view
				  through the rear window.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.223 - Tinted vehicle windows

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person may not drive a motor vehicle on
				  a highway, public road, street, or parking lot with mirrored tinting material
				  on any window of the vehicle. Except as provided in this section, a person may
				  not drive a motor vehicle on a highway, public road, street or parking lot with
				  aftermarket tinting material or aftermarket striping material on any window of
				  the vehicle.
(b) Aftermarket
				  tinting of vehicle windows is allowed as follows:
(1) the front windshield may have a strip of
				  tinting material applied to the top edge, known in the industry as an
				  "eyebrow," which does not extend downward more than five inches from the top of
				  the glass;
(2) the driver and front
				  passenger side windows may have tinting material that permits at least 70
				  percent light transmittance;
(3)
				  the rear door windows, quarter glasses, and back glasses may have tinting
				  material that permits at least 40 percent light transmittance;
(4) limousines and passenger buses used to
				  transport persons for hire, motor homes, and vehicles identified by the vehicle
				  manufacturer as multipurpose may have tinting material that complies with
				  Standard No. 205, Glazing Materials, in
				  49 C.F.R.
				  571.205(1992).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.225 - Windshields and wipers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No person may drive a motor vehicle which
				  is not equipped with a windshield, nor may a person drive a motor vehicle
				  equipped with a defective windshield or windows which obstructs, obscures or
				  impairs the driver's view. This section does not require a windshield as
				  equipment upon a motor-driven cycle, bicycle, or off-highway vehicle.
(b) No person may drive a motor vehicle with
				  a sign, poster or other nontransparent material on the front windshield or
				  window of the vehicle which obstructs, obscures, or impairs the driver's view;
				  nor may a person drive a motor vehicle when there is an accumulation of snow,
				  ice or frost on the windshield or windows which obstructs, obscures or impairs
				  the driver's view.
(c) The
				  windshield on a motor vehicle must be equipped with devices for cleaning rain,
				  snow and other moisture from both sides of the windshield; the device must be
				  constructed to be controlled or operated by the driver of the vehicle, and must
				  be maintained in good working order.
(d) A motor vehicle required to have a
				  windshield, except vehicles which do not have enclosed passenger compartments,
				  must be equipped with a defrosting device to remove snow, ice, frost, or
				  internal moisture from the windshield; this defrosting device must be
				  maintained in good working order.
(e) Repealed 6/28/79.
(f) No person may sell or drive a motor
				  vehicle or truck camper manufactured or assembled after July 1, 1968, unless it
				  is equipped with safety glazing material constructed, treated or combined with
				  other materials to reduce substantially, in comparison with ordinary sheet
				  glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by glass which is
				  cracked or broken.
(g) A person who
				  drives on a highway a motor vehicle which is not equipped with a windshield in
				  a position to deflect objects which would hit his face must wear an
				  eye-protective device as prescribed for motorcycle operators in sec. 350 of
				  this chapter.
Authority:
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.227 - Steering assembly, wheel alignment and body condition

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No vehicle may
				  be driven upon a highway or a vehicular way or area with loose or defective
				  wheels or steering assembly which constitutes a hazard.
(b) No vehicle may be driven upon a highway
				  or vehicular way or area with sharp protuberances, or with fenders, bumpers or
				  other equipment removed, and which may endanger persons or other
				  objects.
Authority:
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						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.230 - Tires

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No person may drive or move on a highway
				  a motor vehicle or trailer having a metal tire in contact with the
				  roadway.
(b) No tire on a vehicle
				  moved on a highway may have on its periphery a protuberance of a material other
				  than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the
				  tire, except that it is permissible to use
(1)
				  implements of husbandry with tires having protuberances which will not injure
				  the highway;
(2) tire chains when
				  required for safety because of snow, ice or other conditions which may cause a
				  vehicle to skid; or
(3) pneumatic
				  tires having studs designed to improve traction without substantially injuring
				  the surface of the highway; however, their use may be limited to certain months
				  or types of vehicles, or both.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.240 - Certain vehicles to carry flares or other devices

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in (c) of this section, no person may drive a truck, bus,
				  truck-tractor or a motor vehicle towing a mobile home or pole trailer upon a
				  highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality unless there is carried
				  in the vehicle the following equipment:
(1)
				  three flares, three red electric lanterns, or three portable red emergency
				  reflectors;
(2) three red-burning
				  fusees unless red electric lanterns or red portable emergency reflectors are
				  carried with the vehicle; and
(3)
				  two red cloth flags at least 12 inches square with standards to support the
				  flags and visible for a distance of at least 600 feet under normal atmospheric
				  conditions.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.245 - Display of warning lights and devices when vehicle is stopped or disabled

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When
				  a vehicle described in sec. 240(a) of this chapter is disabled, stopped, or
				  parked on a shoulder of a highway outside a municipality in a manner which
				  presents a hazard to traffic, and at a time when lights are required to be
				  illuminated under sec. 10 of this chapter, the driver of the vehicle must
				  display the following warning devices, except as provided in (b) of this
				  section:
(1) a lighted fusee, a lighted red
				  electric lantern, or a portable red emergency reflector, which must immediately
				  be placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of the nearest
				  approaching traffic; and
(2) as
				  soon as possible, and within the burning period of the fusee (15 minutes), the
				  driver shall place three liquid-burning flares (pot torches), three lighted red
				  electric lanterns, or three portable red emergency reflectors on the roadway in
				  the following order:
(A) one approximately
				  100 feet from the disabled vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by the
				  vehicle and toward traffic approaching in that lane;
(B) one approximately 100 feet in the
				  opposite direction from the disabled vehicle and in the center of the traffic
				  lane occupied by the vehicle; and
(C) one at the traffic side of the disabled
				  vehicle at least 10 feet behind or forward of the vehicle in the direction of
				  the nearest approaching traffic.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.247 - Color and special equipment on school buses

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Every school
				  bus used for pupil transportation must be painted National School Bus Chrome
				  Yellow (National Bureau of Standards Color #1305). No other vehicle may display
				  this color. A bus originally painted and used as a school bus which is no
				  longer used as a school bus must be painted a color other than National School
				  Bus Chrome Yellow before it may be driven on a highway or vehicular way or
				  area.
(b) When transporting a
				  school child to or from a school activity, a school bus must display signs as
				  follows:
(1) the words "SCHOOL BUS" in black
				  letters at least eight inches in height on a contrasting background, plainly
				  visible to the front and rear; and
(2) the words "UNLAWFUL TO PASS WHEN RED
				  LIGHTS FLASH" in black letters at least four inches but not more than six
				  inches in height on a white background on the rear of the bus.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.250 - Vehicles using compressed gas fuel

Current through May 31, 2024
A vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel must
(1) vent the fuel storage compartment at the
				  lowest points; and
(2) display,
				  clearly and legibly, an approved sign or decal maintained in good condition and
				  mounted on the outside of the fuel storage compartment bearing the words
				  "COMPRESSED GAS FUEL" with conspicuous letters at least one inch in height on a
				  sharply contrasting background; the sign or decal must be reflectorized to
				  increase nighttime visibility.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.252 - Slow-moving-vehicle emblem

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Every
				  animal-driven vehicle and implement of husbandry or combination of these
				  vehicles designed for or driven at speeds less than 25 miles per hour must be
				  equipped with a slow-moving-vehicle emblem mounted on the rear, except that
(1) when the towed unit or a load on the
				  towed unit obscures the slow-moving-vehicle emblem on the towing unit, the
				  towed unit must be equipped with a slow-moving-vehicle emblem, and the towing
				  vehicle need not display the emblem; or
(2) when the slow-moving-vehicle emblem on
				  the towing unit is not obscured by the towed unit or its load, either unit may
				  be equipped with the emblem.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.255 - Air-conditioning equipment

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this
				  section, "air-conditioning equipment" means mechanical vapor compression
				  refrigeration equipment used to cool the driver or passenger compartment of a
				  motor vehicle.
(b) Air-conditioning
				  equipment must be manufactured, installed, and maintained with regard for the
				  safety of the occupants of the vehicle and the public, and may not use or
				  contain a refrigerant toxic to persons, or flammable, explosive, corrosive or
				  otherwise hazardous.
(c)
				  Manufacture, installation, maintenance and use of air-conditioning equipment
				  will, as far as practicable, conform to the standards applicable to the
				  equipment as approved by the Society of Automotive Engineers on the effective
				  date of this section.
(d) No person
				  may drive on a highway or other vehicular way or area, equip, sell, or offer
				  for sale, a motor vehicle equipped with air-conditioning equipment which does
				  not meet the requirements of this section.
Copies of these standards may be obtained from Society of
						Automotive Engineers, Inc., 400 Commonwealth Drive, Lorendale, Pennsylvania
						15096.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.257 - Emission-control systems

Current through May 31, 2024
When a motor vehicle is equipped with an emission-control
					 system or when a motor vehicle is required by a statute or regulation to have
					 an emission-control system, the system must be maintained in good working
					 order.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.260 - Television receivers and headsets

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A motor vehicle
				  driven in this state may not be equipped with television-type receiving
				  equipment located where the viewer or screen is visible from the driver's
				  seat.
(b) A driver of a motor
				  vehicle may not wear a headset, headphones, or other headgear designed for
				  receiving sound and transmitting sound to the driver, or wear ear plugs or a
				  similar device which reduces the driver's hearing ability while driving a
				  vehicle.
(c) This section does not
				  prohibit the use of television-type or headgear-receiving equipment
(1) used exclusively for safety or law
				  enforcement purposes;
(2) used for
				  communications between motorcyclists, including between a motorcycle operator
				  and passenger;
(3) used for and
				  designed to improve a driver's hearing ability; or
(4) that are navigational devices, such as a
				  global positioning system (GPS) or a long-range navigation system
				  (LORAN).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.265 - Antispray device

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No person may drive a motor vehicle
				  unless it has a device which effectively reduces the wheel spray or splash of
				  water or other substance to the rear of the vehicle.
(b) The device required in (a) of this
				  section must be installed and maintained so that the device placed behind a
				  wheel extends downward to a distance of 14 inches from the surface of the
				  ground when the vehicle is standing on level ground.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.270 - Safety belts

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A passenger car manufactured or assembled
				  after January 1, 1965, must be equipped with lap belt assemblies for use in the
				  driver's and one other front seat position. A motor vehicle manufactured or
				  assembled after January 1, 1968, except a motorcycle or off-highway vehicle,
				  must be equipped with lap or shoulder belts required by the United States
				  Department of Transportation in effect on the effective date of this
				  section.
(b) No person may
				  distribute, offer for sale, sell or install a seat belt or shoulder harness for
				  use in a motor vehicle unless the belt or harness meets minimum standards and
				  specifications of the United States Department of Transportation in effect on
				  the effective date of this section.
(c) A vehicle owner shall maintain belts and
				  assemblies required by this section in good condition.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.271 - Safety belt exemption

Current through May 31, 2024
Motor vehicles used to transport prisoners, by state or
					 municipal authorities, are exempt from the safety belt requirement under
					 AS
					 28.05.095, due to the physical conditions of
					 those being transported.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
AS
						28.05.096
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.272 - Energy absorption systems

Current through May 31, 2024
If a motor vehicle was equipped, when assembled, with
					 bumpers or other collision energy absorption or attenuation system, the system
					 must be maintained in good operating condition, and no person may remove,
					 disconnect, cause or knowingly permit the removal or disconnection of a part of
					 the system, except temporarily in order to make repairs, replacements, or
					 adjustments, during which time the vehicle may not be driven.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.275 - Towed vehicles; connections and safety devices

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A vehicle towed
				  upon a street or highway must be coupled to its towing vehicle by means of a
				  safety chain, chains, cable or equivalent device, in addition to the regular
				  hitch or coupling. No additional connecting device may contain more slack than
				  is necessary to permit proper turning of the vehicles connected, and the
				  additional connecting safety devices must be connected to both the towing and
				  the towed vehicles and to the drawbar or other rigid connecting device in a
				  manner which will prevent the drawbar or other rigid connecting device from
				  dropping to the ground in the event of its failure. The additional safety
				  devices must be of sufficient strength to retain control of the towed vehicle
				  in the event of failure of the rigid connecting device.
(b) The requirements of (a) of this section
				  do not apply to a towed vehicle which is connected to a towing vehicle by a
				  connecting device composed of a fifth wheel and kingpin assembly.
(c) Except as provided in (e) of this
				  section, when one vehicle is towing another, the drawbar or other rigid
				  connection must be of sufficient strength to pull all of the weight towed. The
				  drawbar or other connection may not exceed 15 feet in length from one vehicle
				  to the other, except if the connection is between two vehicles, one or both of
				  which transports poles, pipes, machinery or other materials of a structural
				  nature which cannot be readily dismembered.
(d) Except for an implement of husbandry or a
				  pole trailer, the drawbar or other connecting device must connect the towed
				  vehicle to track within six inches of the immediately preceding vehicle to
				  which it is connected.
(e) When one
				  vehicle is towing a disabled vehicle and, because of emergency or other
				  extenuating circumstances, there is no rigid connecting device between a towing
				  and a towed vehicle, there must be displayed upon the connection a white flag
				  or cloth at least 12 inches square.
(f) The provisions of this section do not
				  apply to snowmobiles or other off-highway vehicles.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment › 13 AAC 04.280 - Motorcycle, motor scooter - mirrors, goggles, face shield and helmet (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 13 - Public Safety › Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers › Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection › Article 5 - Equipment on Motorcycles, Motor-Driven Cycles, and Bicycles › 13 AAC 04.320 - Headlights

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A motorcycle must be equipped with
				  multi-beam road-lighting equipment meeting the requirements of
				  13 AAC 04.020(a) and (e).
(b) A motor-driven cycle must have at least
				  one headlight mounted at a height of not more than 54 inches and not less than
				  24 inches, and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a
				  distance of at least 100 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a
				  speed of 20 or less miles per hour, at a distance of at least 200 feet when the
				  motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed between 20 and 30 miles per hour, and
				  at a distance of at least 300 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a
				  speed of 30 or more miles per hour.
(c) A bicycle, when ridden at the times when
				  lights are required under
				  13 AAC 04.010(a) (1) and (2), must be equipped with at least one light
				  on the front of the bicycle, emitting white light visible from a distance of at
				  least 500 feet in front of the bicycle under normal atmospheric
				  conditions.
(d) The lights required
				  by this section for a motor-driven cycle must be turned on at all times when
				  the vehicle is driven upon a highway or vehicular way or area.
Authority:
AS
						28.05.011