Amendment SSA1-SB508

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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE

SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 508

September 21, 2021 - Offered by Senator Petrowski.

SB508-SSA1,1,2 An Act to renumber and amend 347.26 (7); and to create 347.26 (7) (c) of the statutes; relating to: warning lights on highway vehicles.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB508-SSA1,1 Section 1. 347.26 (7) of the statutes is renumbered 347.26 (7) (intro.) and amended to read:

SB508-SSA1,1,10 347.26 (7) Warning lamps on certain highway vehicles. (intro.) Any vehicle of the department or a county or municipal highway department which that by reason of its use upon a highway creates a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of unusual care in approaching, overtaking, or passing may be equipped with a any of the following configurations of flashing red or, amber lamp, or green lamps:

SB508-SSA1,1,11 (a) A lamp of the dome-light type or with 2 flashing red or amber.

SB508-SSA1,2,5 (b) Two lamps, one showing to the front and one showing to the rear. Such lamp or The lamps shall be mounted approximately midway between the extremities of the width of the vehicle and at the highest practicable point and shall be used only for the purpose of warning operators of other vehicles of the presence of the traffic hazard.

SB508-SSA1,2 Section 2. 347.26 (7) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB508-SSA1,2,10 347.26 (7) (c) Four lamps, 2 showing to the front and 2 showing to the rear. The lamps showing to the front shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable. The lamps showing to the rear shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable.

SB508-SSA1,2,11 (End)