HB1202_S_Amend_01_to_Cmte_Amend

Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

House Bill No. 1202

BY: Senator(s) Massey

AMEND by inserting after line 40 the following, and renumber subsequent sections:

SECTION *. Section 63-7-19, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

63-7-19. (1) (a) Except as otherwise provided for unmarked vehicles under Section 19-25-15 and Section 25-1-87, every police vehicle shall be marked with blue lights. Every ambulance and special use EMS vehicle as defined in Section 41-59-3 shall be marked with red lights front and back and also may be marked with white and amber lights in addition to red lights. Every emergency management/civil defense vehicle, including emergency response vehicles of the Department of Environmental Quality, shall be marked with blinking, rotating or oscillating red lights. Official vehicles of a 911 Emergency Communications District may be marked with red and white lights. Every wrecker or other vehicle used for emergency work, except vehicles authorized to use blue or red lights, shall be marked with blinking, oscillating or rotating amber-colored lights to warn other vehicles to yield the right-of-way, as provided in Section 63-3-809. Only police vehicles used for emergency work may be marked with blinking, oscillating or rotating blue lights to warn other vehicles to yield the right-of-way. Only law enforcement vehicles, fire vehicles, private or department-owned vehicles used by firemen of volunteer fire departments which receive funds pursuant to Section 83-1-39 when responding to calls, emergency management/civil defense vehicles, emergency response vehicles of the Department of Environmental Quality, ambulances used for emergency work, and 911 Emergency Communications District vehicles may be marked with blinking, oscillating or rotating red lights to warn other vehicles to yield the right-of-way. This section shall not apply to school buses carrying lighting devices in accordance with Section 63-7-23.

(b) Emergency response vehicles listed in this subsection (1) are also authorized to use alternating flashing headlights when responding to any emergency.

(2) Any vehicle operated by a United States rural mail carrier for the purpose of delivering United States mail may be marked with two (2) amber-colored lights on front top of the vehicle and two (2) red-colored lights on rear top of the vehicle and alternatively or additionally may be marked with a white, flashing strobe light on the roof of the vehicle so as to warn approaching travelers to decrease their speed because of danger of colliding with the mail carrier as he stops and starts along the edge of the road, street or highway.

(3) Any sanitation vehicle operated by a county, municipality or other political subdivision of this state or by a contractor under contract with a county, municipality or other political subdivision of this state to collect solid waste, refuse or recyclable material may be marked with flashing or oscillating white- or amber-colored lights so as to warn approaching travelers to decrease speed because of the danger of colliding with the sanitation collection vehicle as it stops and starts along the road, street or highway.

(4) Any nonlaw enforcement vehicle being used to lead and facilitate the movement of a military funeral procession may be marked with blinking, rotating or oscillating purple lights. "Military funeral procession" means two (2) or more vehicles accompanying the body of a deceased member of the United States Armed Forces, or traveling to the church, chapel or other location at which the funeral service or entombment is to be held.

(5) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all publicly owned fire trucks with fire apparatus, including those owned by volunteer fire departments, may use no more than two (2) blue lights on the rear of the vehicle which must not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the visible rear lights. Fire trucks with fire apparatus may be retrofitted to meet this provision.

(b) For the purposes of this subsection (5), "fire truck" means any of the following:

(i) A pumper fire apparatus, which is a vehicle equipped with a permanently mounted fire pump of seven hundred fifty (750) gallons per minute (two thousand eight hundred fifty (2,850) liters per minute) rated capacity or greater, a water tank of at least five hundred (500) gallons (one thousand nine hundred (1,900) liters), and hose body, that is designed primarily to combat structural and associated fires.

(ii) An initial attack fire apparatus, which is a vehicle equipped with an attack pump of two hundred fifty (250) through seven hundred (700) gallons per minute (nine hundred fifty (950) through two thousand six hundred fifty (2,650) liters per minute), a water tank, and minimum hose and equipment, that is designed primarily for rapid response and initiating a fire attack on structural, vehicular or vegetation fires and supporting associated fire department operations.

(iii) A mobile water supply fire apparatus, which is a vehicle equipped with a water tank of at least one thousand (1,000) gallons (three thousand eight hundred (3,800) liters), that is designed primarily for transporting water to fire emergency scenes to be applied by other vehicles or pumping equipment.

(iv) An aerial ladder and elevating platform fire apparatus, which is a vehicle equipped with a permanently mounted, power-operated aerial ladder or with a passenger-carrying platform attached to the uppermost boom of a series of telescoping or articulating or telescoping and articulating booms, that is designed to provide rescue capability from elevated positions and the positioning of firefighters and elevated master streams for fire suppression tasks.

(v) A rescue vehicle equipped with special equipment such as the Jaws of Life, wooden cribbing, generators, winches, high-lift jacks, cranes, cutting torches and circular saws that is primarily designed to provide the specialized equipment necessary for technical rescue for vehicle extrication, building collapse or confined space rescue, rope rescue and swift water rescue.

FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.