New Hampshire Revised Statutes 266:78-g – Use of Lights by Fire, State Department of Corrections, Rescue, and Emergency Response Personnel
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 266:78-g
- Department: shall mean the department of safety of the state of New Hampshire. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:19
- Garage: shall mean every place where 5 or more motor vehicles are stored or housed at any one time, except such places in which motor vehicles are kept by the owners thereof without payment for storage. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:38
- State: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:106 - Traffic: shall mean pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any way for purposes of travel. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:110
- Vehicle: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:122
Police, fire, ambulance, state department of corrections, and rescue vehicles, and other vehicles authorized under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 266:78-c shall only illuminate emergency lights and warning lights when responding to but not returning from an actual or reported emergency, transporting a patient to a hospital for emergency treatment, or when parked at the scene of an emergency for purposes of warning approaching traffic. Fire apparatus and ambulances may also illuminate emergency lights and warning lights while parking or backing the vehicle to access a garage housing the apparatus or when serving as a mobile command post to designate the location of the command post. No persons other than emergency response personnel shall drive a vehicle with red emergency lights in operation.