(a) No person shall operate any truck, trailer, semitrailer, bus or commercial tractor upon any street or highway within the City under the conditions specified in Section 337.02, unless there is carried in such vehicle, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, the following equipment, which shall be of a type approved by the Ohio Director of Transportation:
(1) At least three flares or three red reflectors or three red electric lanterns, each of which is capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of 500 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at nighttime;
(2) At least three red-burning fusees, unless red reflectors or red electric lanterns are carried; and
(3) At least two red cloth flags, not less than twelve inches square, with standards to support the same.
(b) No person shall operate, under the conditions stated in Section 337.02, any motor vehicle used in transporting flammable liquids in bulk or in transporting compressed flammable gases, unless there is carried in such vehicle three red electric lanterns or three red reflectors meeting the requirements stated in subsection (a) hereof. In any such vehicle no flares, fusees or signals produced by a flame shall be carried.
(ORC 4513.27)