HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2751

(House Bill 1034)

AN ACT concerning

Harford County - Volunteer Fire Vehicles - Lights
and Signals

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Fire Chief and certain
other members of each volunteer fire company in Harford
County to equip their vehicles with certain lights or
signal devices; and restricting the use of the lights
or signal devices to certain emergency occasions.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation
Section 22-218(c)(2)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Transportation

22-218.

(c) (2) (I) Vehicles of city, county, State, or
federal fire departments or duly constituted volunteer fire
departments or rescue squads may be equipped with or display
red and/or white lights or signal devices.

(II) 1. IN HARFORD COUNTY, THE FIRE CHIEF,
AND THE TWO CHIEF DEPUTIES, OR THE DESIGNATED FIRE POLICE OF
EACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY MAY HAVE THEIR VEHICLES EQUIPPED
WITH AMBER LIGHTS OR SIGNAL DEVICES DESIGNED TO EMIT AN
OSCILLATING, ROTATING, BLINKING, OR OTHER TYPE OF EMISSION
OF LIGHT.

2. THE LIGHTS OR SIGNAL DEVICES MAY
BE FLASHED OR OSCILLATED OR OTHERWISE USED ONLY WHILE THE
VEHICLE IS ON ROUTE TO OR AT THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT,
FLOOD, OR OTHER EMERGENCY TO WHICH THE VOLUNTEER FIRE
COMPANY IS RESPONDING.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.