WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        Ch. 5

(d) Every vehicle shall be equipped with brakes acting on
all wheels, except:

(5) The wheel of a sidecar attached to a motorcycle
or to a motor-driven cycle, or the front wheel of a motor-driven
cycle need not be equipped with brakes, provided that the
motorcycle or motor-driven cycle is capable of complying with the
performance requirements of § 22-302 of this subtitle; AND

(.6) Any vehicle equipped with at least 2 steerable
axles need not have brakes on the wheels of 1 of the axles.
However, the vehicle must be capable of complying with the
performance requirements of § 22-302 of this [subtitle; and]
SUBTITLE.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Misplaced conjunction and erroneous
punctuation in § 22-301(d)(5) and (6).

Occurred: Ch. 720, Acts of 1988.

22-408.

(a) Whenever any truck, passenger bus, truck tractor,
trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer, or any motor vehicle
towing a mobile home is disabled on the roadway or shoulder of
any highway outside of any municipal corporation at any time when
lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the driver of the vehicle
shall display the following warning devices on the highway during
the time the vehicle is so disabled on the highway, except as
provided in subsection (b), (c) or (e) of this section:

(2) As soon thereafter as possible, but in any event
within 15 minutes or before any fusee used for this purpose burns
out, whichever occurs first, the driver shall place three
liquid-burning flares (pot torches), three lighted red electric
lanterns, or three portable red emergency reflectors on the
roadway of the highway in the following order:

(iii) [One] ONE, at the traffic side of the
disabled vehicle not less than 10 feet rearward or forward of it
in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic, except that,
if a lighted red electric lantern or a red portable emergency
reflector has been placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in
accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection, it may be used
for this purpose.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted comma in § 22-408(a)(2)(iii) of the
Transportation Article.

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