10.32.070 Authorized emergency vehicle equipment—Bus equipment.

   A.   Every authorized emergency vehicle shall, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by the Revised Codes of Montana, be equipped with a siren, exhaust whistle or bell capable of giving an audible signal.

   B.   Every authorized emergency vehicle shall, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by the Revised Codes of Montana, be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall be capable of displaying 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, and these lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight.

   C.   Every bus used for the transportation of school children shall, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by the Revised Codes of Montana, be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, displaying to the front two red and two amber alternating flashing lights and to the rear two red and two amber alternating flashing lights. These lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight.

   The warning lights shall be of a type, and located on each bus, as prescribed by the State Board of Education and approved by the Supervisor of the State Highway Patrol.

   D.   A police vehicle, when used as an authorized emergency vehicle, may but need not be equipped with alternately flashing red lights specified in this section.

   E.   The use of the signal equipment described in this section shall impose upon drivers of other vehicles the obligation to yield the right-of-way and stop as prescribed in Sections 10.28.200 and 10.28.210 of this title.

(Ord. 321 Art. 11 § 7, 1974).