49-915. SCHOOL BUSES — VISUAL SIGNAL. (1) Every school bus shall, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by this title, be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall display to the front two (2) alternately flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear two (2) alternately flashing red lights located at the same level. These lights shall be visible at five hundred (500) feet in normal sunlight.
(2) Any school bus shall, in addition to the lights required by subsection (1), be equipped with yellow signal lamps mounted near each of the four (4) red lamps and at the same level, but closer to the vertical centerline of the bus, which shall display two (2) alternately flashing yellow lights to the front and two (2) alternately flashing yellow lights to the rear. These lights shall be visible at five hundred (500) feet in normal sunlight. These lights shall be displayed by the school bus driver at least two hundred (200) feet before every stop at which the alternately flashing red lights required by subsection (1) will be actuated.
(3) Every school bus shall be equipped with a semaphore stop arm which shall be a flat eighteen (18) inch octagon exclusive of brackets for mounting, with reflectorized material on both sides, be red with a silver white border, and have a legend reading "stop" six (6) inches high with three-quarter (3/4) inch wide silver white letters, mounted outside the bus on the left side opposite driver’s seat and have a driver-controlled mechanism. Flashing lamps in the stop arm may be connected to the alternating red flashing signal lamp circuits. The stop arm signal may be vacuum, electric, air or manually controlled.
History:
[49-915, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 241, p. 695.]
Structure Idaho Code
Section 49-901 - DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT AND DIRECTOR OF IDAHO STATE POLICE.
Section 49-902 - SCOPE AND EFFECT.
Section 49-903 - WHEN LIGHTED LAMPS ARE REQUIRED.
Section 49-904 - VISIBILITY DISTANCE AND MOUNTED HEIGHT OF LAMPS.
Section 49-905 - HEAD LAMPS ON MOTOR VEHICLES.
Section 49-907 - MOTOR VEHICLES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH REFLECTORS.
Section 49-908 - STOP LAMPS AND TURN SIGNALS REQUIRED ON MOTOR VEHICLES.
Section 49-909 - ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT REQUIRED ON CERTAIN VEHICLES.
Section 49-910 - COLOR OF CLEARANCE LAMPS, SIDE MARKER LAMPS, AND REFLECTORS.
Section 49-910A - COLOR OF LAMPS AND GLOBES LIMITED TO CERTAIN VEHICLE CLASSES.
Section 49-911 - VISIBILITY OF REFLECTORS, CLEARANCE LAMPS, AND MARKER LAMPS.
Section 49-912 - OBSTRUCTED LIGHTS NOT REQUIRED.
Section 49-913 - LAMP OR FLAG ON PROJECTING LOAD.
Section 49-914 - LAMPS ON PARKED VEHICLES.
Section 49-915 - SCHOOL BUSES — VISUAL SIGNAL.
Section 49-916 - LAMPS ON FARM TRACTORS, FARM EQUIPMENT AND IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY.
Section 49-917 - LAMPS ON OTHER VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-918 - SPOT LAMPS AND AUXILIARY LAMPS.
Section 49-919 - SIGNAL LAMPS AND SIGNAL DEVICES.
Section 49-920 - ADDITIONAL LIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-921 - REAR MOUNTED ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION LIGHTING SYSTEM.
Section 49-922 - MULTIPLE-BEAM ROAD-LIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-923 - USE OF MULTIPLE-BEAM ROAD-LIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-924 - SINGLE-BEAM ROAD-LIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-925 - LIGHTING EQUIPMENT ON MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLES.
Section 49-926 - ALTERNATE ROAD-LIGHTING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-927 - NUMBER OF DRIVING LAMPS REQUIRED OR PERMITTED.
Section 49-928 - SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS ON LAMPS.
Section 49-929 - LIGHTS ON SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-930 - SELLING OR USING LAMPS OR EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-934 - BRAKES ON MOTOR-DRIVEN CYCLES.
Section 49-937 - MUFFLERS, PREVENTION OF NOISE.
Section 49-943 - WINDSHIELDS TO BE UNOBSTRUCTED AND EQUIPPED WITH WIPERS.
Section 49-945 - SAFETY GLAZING MATERIAL IN MOTOR VEHICLES.
Section 49-948 - RESTRICTIONS AS TO TIRE EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-949 - REQUIREMENT AS TO FENDER OR COVERS OVER ALL WHEELS ON MOTOR VEHICLES.
Section 49-952 - CERTAIN VEHICLES TO CARRY FLARES OR OTHER WARNING DEVICES.
Section 49-953 - DISPLAY OF WARNING DEVICES WHEN VEHICLE DISABLED.
Section 49-956 - HORNS AND WARNING DEVICES.
Section 49-959 - AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT.
Section 49-962 - FOOTRESTS ON MOTORCYCLES AND MOTOR DRIVEN CYCLES.
Section 49-965 - MODIFICATION OF VEHICLE TO REDUCE ROAD CLEARANCE BEYOND CERTAIN LIMITS UNLAWFUL.
Section 49-966 - MOTOR VEHICLE BUMPER HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS.
Section 49-967 - AIR BAGS AND AIR BAG SYSTEMS — DISCLOSURE IF INOPERABLE.