(A) No person shall operate any motor vehicle of the second division or any motor vehicle towing a house trailer upon any highway outside an urban district, as defined in ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, § 1-214, at any time unless there is carried in the vehicle the following equipment, except as provided in division (B) below:
(1) At least three liquid-burning flares or three red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors, each of which is capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of not less than 500 feet when lighted lamps are required; and,
(2) At least three red-burning, 15-minute fuses unless red electric lanterns or portable red emergency reflectors are carried; and,
(3) At least two red cloth flags, not less than 12 inches square, with standards to support the flags.
(B) No person shall operate at the time and under the conditions stated in division (A) above any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives, any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or compressed gases or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, unless there is carried in the vehicle three red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of division (A) above and the vehicle shall not carry any flares, fuses or signals produced by flame.
(C) When any motor vehicle of the second division or any motor vehicle towing a house trailer is disabled upon the roadway of any highway or the shoulder thereof outside an urban district at any time when lighted lamps are required, the driver of the vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled, except as provided in division (D) below:
(1) A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern or a portable red emergency reflector shall be immediately placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. However, the driver of the vehicle, upon learning of the disability, may simultaneously flash the two front and two rear turn signals as a vehicular traffic warning and continue the flashing until the portable signals have been placed as required by this section and during the time the portable emergency signals are being picked up for storage before the movement of the vehicle.
(2) As soon thereafter as possible, but in any event within the burning period of the fusee (15 minutes), the driver shall place three liquid-burning flares or three lighted red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors on the roadway or shoulder of the highway in the following order:
(a) One approximately 100 feet from the disabled vehicle in the center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle and toward traffic approaching in that lane; and,
(b) One approximately 100 feet in the opposite direction from the disabled vehicle and in the center of the traffic lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle; and
(c) One at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle, not less than ten feet from the rear or forward thereof in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. If a lighted red electric lantern or a portable red emergency reflector has been placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in accordance with division (C)(1) of this section, it may be used for this purpose.
(D) When any vehicle referred to in this section is disabled within 500 feet of a curve, hill crest or other obstruction to view, the warning signal in that direction shall be so placed as to afford ample warning to other users of the highway, but in no case less than 100 feet nor more than 500 feet from the disabled vehicle.
(E) When any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is disabled upon any roadway or shoulder of a divided highway during the time the lighted lamps are required, the appropriate warning devices described in division (A)(1) and (A)(2) above shall be placed as follows:
(1) One at a distance of approximately 200 feet from the vehicle in the center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the stopped vehicle and in the direction of traffic approaching in that lane; and,
(2) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet from the vehicle in the center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle and in the direction of traffic approaching in that lane; and,
(3) One at the traffic side of the vehicle and approximately ten feet from the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic.
(F) When any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is disabled upon the roadway or any highway or the shoulder thereof outside an urban district at any time when the display of fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or portable red emergency reflectors are not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display two red cloth flags upon the roadway or shoulder in the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle in the following order:
(1) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet in advance of the vehicle; and,
(2) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet in the rear of the vehicle.
(G) When any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is disabled upon any roadway or shoulder of a divided highway during the time lighted lamps are not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display two red cloth flags upon the roadway or shoulder in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle in the following order:
(1) One at a distance of approximately 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle; and,
(2) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle.
(H) When any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives, or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of any flammable liquid or compressed flammable gas or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel is disabled upon a highway of the Village at any time or place mentioned in division (C) of this section, the driver of the vehicle immediately shall display three red electric lanterns or portable red emergency reflectors placed in the following order:
(1) One at the traffic side of the vehicle and approximately ten feet from the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic; and,
(2) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the front of the disabled vehicle in the center of the lane of traffic or shoulder occupied by the vehicle; and,
(3) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the disabled vehicle in the center of the lane of traffic or shoulder occupied by the vehicle. Flares, fusees or signals produced by flame shall not be used as warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in this division.
(I) The flares, fusees, red electric lanterns, portable red emergency reflectors and flags to be displayed as required in this section shall conform with the requirements of divisions (A) and (B) of this section applicable thereto.
('73 Code, § 21-247) (Ord. 62-610, passed 10-1-62) Penalty, see § 70.999