(a) All farm machinery and other machinery, including all road construction machinery except when guarded by flaggers or flares, designed to operate at 25 miles per hour or less, hereinafter referred to as “slow-moving vehicles,” traveling on a public highway where permitted by law during day or night, shall display a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem on the rear of the vehicle. Registered or legal owners of such vehicles shall use emblems, as developed by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers and printed in ASABE Standard ASABE S 276.8, for the purpose of identifying slow-moving vehicles. The emblem shall be mounted on the rear of the vehicle, base down, and at a height of not less than 3 nor more than 5 feet from ground to base.
(b) The display or use of such emblem as required by this section shall be in addition to any lighting devices required by law.
(c) The display or use of this emblem shall be restricted to the display or use specified by this section and its display or use by any other type of vehicle, or as a clearance marker on wide machinery or any stationary objects on the highway is prohibited.
(d) The slow-moving vehicles are not permitted to use public highways, unless otherwise permitted by law, from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays from Monday through Friday, except on holidays, notwithstanding § 15-2.17.
(e) Slow-moving vehicles operated on any roadway open to public travel shall be driven in the right-hand lane, or as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway, except for a distance not to exceed 1,000 feet when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
(Sec. 15-24.19, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 15, Art. 24, § 15-24.19)