Highway at night, highway at any time
243(1)No person shall operate on a highway at night time a motor truck having an overall width of two metres or more, a passenger bus, a motor vehicle towing a house trailer, or a truck tractor unless
(a)
there are carried in such vehicle three portable reflector units or standards capable of reflecting red light clearly visible at a distance of one hundred fifty metres under normal atmospheric conditions at night time when directly in front of the lawful upper beams of head lamps located at a distance from the reflectors, and of a type approved by the Registrar, or
(b)
there are carried in the vehicle at least two red cloth flags, not less than thirty centimetres square, with standards to support them, together with
(i)
not fewer than three flares, each
(A)
capable of burning continuously for twelve hours in a wind of eight kilometres per hour velocity,
(B)
capable of burning in a wind of sixty kilometres per hour velocity,
(C)
capable, when burning at night, of being seen and distinguished at a distance of one hundred fifty metres under normal atmospheric conditions,
(D)
so constructed as to withstand reasonable shocks without leaking, and
(E)
carried in the vehicle in a metal rack or box, and
not fewer than three red fusees, each capable when ignited of being seen and distinguished at night time under normal atmospheric conditions at a distance of one hundred fifty metres, or
(ii)
not fewer than three red electric lanterns, each
(A)
capable of operating continuously for twelve hours,
(B)
capable of being seen and distinguished when lighted at night time under normal atmospheric conditions at a distance of one hundred fifty metres, and
(C)
substantially constructed so as to withstand breakage.
243(2)No person shall operate on a highway at night time a motor vehicle used in the transportation of flammable liquids in bulk or transporting compressed flammable gases unless there are carried in such vehicle
(a)
three red electric lanterns meeting the requirements of subparagraph (1)(
b)(ii), or
(b)
three portable reflector units meeting the requirements of paragraph (1)(
a).
243(3)No person shall operate on a highway at any time a motor vehicle used in the transportation of flammable liquids in bulk or transporting flammable gases, in which there is being carried any flare or other signal produced by a flame.
1955, c.13, s.216; 1956, c.19, s.19; 1957, c.21, s.25; 1959, c.23, s.14; 1961-62, c.62, s.85; 1965, c.29, s.15; 1977, c.M-11.1, s.17; 1983, c.52, s.21; 1998, c.30, s.19