(a) Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than head lamps, spot lamps, auxiliary lamps or flashing front-direction signals which projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than 300 candlepower shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle.
(b) No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any street or highway with any lamp or device thereon displaying other than a white or amber light visible from directly in front of the center thereof except as authorized by subsection (d) hereof.
(c) Except as authorized in Section 345.11 flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except on an authorized emergency vehicle, school bus, snow removal equipment or on any vehicle as a means for indicating right or left turn, or on any vehicle as a means of indicating the same is disabled or otherwise stopped for an emergency.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Traffic Code, the following color of flashing warning lights are restricted for the use of the type of vehicle designated:
(1) Blue flashing warning lights are restricted to police vehicles, except as authorized by West Virginia Code 17C-15-27.
(2) Except as authorized by Section 345.11 red flashing warning lights are restricted to ambulances, fire-fighting vehicles, school buses, Class A vehicles, as defined by West Virginia Code 17A-l0-1 of those volunteer firemen who are authorized by their fire chiefs to have such lights and to Class A vehicles of members of volunteer ambulance services or duly chartered rescue squads who are authorized by their respective chiefs to have such lights, provided that red flashing warning lights attached to such Class A vehicles may be operated only when responding to or engaged in handling an emergency requiring the attention of such volunteer firemen or member of such volunteer ambulance service or chartered rescue squads.
(3) All other emergency vehicles, including tow trucks and wreckers, authorized by this Traffic Code and by West Virginia Code 17C-15-27 shall be restricted to amber or yellow flashing warning lights. No person shall install or use flashing warning lights of an unauthorized color on a vehicle other than as specified in this section, except that a police vehicle may be equipped with either or both blue or red warning lights.
(WVaC 17C-15-26)