Except as otherwise provided in this chapter:
(A) Red oscillating, rotating or flashing lights, whether lighted or unlined are prohibited except on:
(1) Law enforcement vehicles of the state or federal government;
(2) Law enforcement vehicles owned by local authorities;
(3) A vehicle operated by a police officer or county coroner and designated or authorized by local authorities, in writing, as a law enforcement vehicle; however, such designation or authorization shall be carried in the vehicle;
(4) Vehicles of local fire departments and firefighting vehicles of the state or federal government;
(5) Vehicles which are designed as ambulances; furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted except while responding to an emergency call for the purpose of conveying sick or injured persons; and
(6) Rescue squad vehicles operated by fire departments or rescue squads.
(B) Amber oscillating, rotating or flashing lights, whether lighted or unlighted, are prohibited except on:
(1) Second Division vehicles designed for towing or hoisting disabled vehicles; furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted, except when such vehicles are actually being used for such purposes;
(2) Motor vehicles or equipment of the state, local authorities and contractors; furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted, except while such vehicles are engaged in maintenance or construction operations within the limits of construction projects;
(3) Vehicles or equipment used by engineering or survey crews; furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted except while such vehicles are actually engaged in work on a highway;
(4) Vehicles of public utilities and municipal departments; furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted except while such vehicles are engaged in maintenance or construction operations within the limits of construction projects;
(5) Oversized vehicle or load moving under permit issued by the Department of Transportation under 625 ILCS 5/15-1301.
(6) The front and rear of motorized equipment owned and operated by the state or the city, which is designed and used for removal of snow and ice from highways; and
(7) Fleet safety vehicles registered in another state, furthermore, such lights shall not be lighted except as provided for in § 74.026.
(C) Blue oscillating, rotating or flashing lights whether lighted or unlighted, are prohibited except on:
(1) The front, or any part from the back of the front seat forward to the windshield, and said light may be permanently or temporarily mounted and covered or uncovered, of any motor vehicle owned or fully operated by a volunteer firefighter, paid firefighter, part-paid firefighter or on call firefighter, such lights to be used only while responding to a fire call or other Fire Department emergency, or the vehicle of any volunteer, paid or unpaid or an call, member of a rescue squad responding to a rescue squad emergency or, if the Fire Department or a civil defense emergency medical services unit operates a rescue squad, its members on the way to an emergency call;
(2) Vehicles of rescue squads when on the way to an emergency call; and
(3) Law enforcement vehicles of state or local authorities when used in combination with red oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights.
(D) All oscillating, rotating or flashing lights referred to in this section shall be of sufficient intensity, when illuminated, to be visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight.
(E) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a manufacturer of oscillating, rotating or flashing lights or his or her representative from temporarily mounting such lights on a vehicle for demonstration purposes only.
(Prior Code, § 40-2-215) (Ord. 2016-11, passed 2-16-2016) Penalty, see § 74.999