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C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 474
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474. No person may drive a road vehicle or combination of road vehicles whose load or equipment extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre at its farthest point unless a red flag or a reflector panel, and, at night, a red light visible from behind and from the sides for not less than 150 metres is installed at the farthest point. The flag or reflector panel and their installation must comply with any standards that may be prescribed by regulation.
The devices required under the first paragraph may be replaced by an amber light that meets the standards prescribed by regulation.
The devices required under the first paragraph are not necessary when
(1)  the equipment whose farthest point extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle is an aerodynamic system that complies with the standards established by a regulation;
(2)  the farthest point of the load consists in a passenger vehicle carrying reflectors at the rear and extends 1.2 metres or less beyond the rear of a road vehicle designed to carry three or more passenger vehicles or of a combination of road vehicles designed for that purpose.
The first paragraph also applies to the operation of a tool vehicle whose equipment extends beyond the front or rear of the vehicle by more than one metre. The prescribed signs or signals must be visible from the front or the rear, as applicable, and from the sides from a distance of not less than 150 metres. If the equipment extends beyond the front of the vehicle, the light must be amber. If part of the equipment extends beyond the vehicle by more than 1.5 metres, an escort vehicle must precede or follow the vehicle, as the case may be, at a distance of not more than 50 metres with its hazard lights flashing.
The equipment is considered to extend beyond the tool vehicle when it has a point or a sharp edge that extends by at least 30 cm beyond the front or the rear of the vehicle. The starting point for measuring the part of the equipment that extends beyond the front or the rear of the tool vehicle is the end of the mast or boom to which the fork, bucket or other tool is attached.
No person may drive a tool vehicle on a public highway unless the vehicle’s equipment is in a retracted position.
The fourth and sixth paragraphs do not apply when the vehicle is being used to carry out work on a public highway.
1986, c. 91, s. 474; 1990, c. 83, s. 173; 1996, c. 56, s. 93; 2008, c. 14, s. 57; 2010, c. 34, s. 68; 2018, c. 7, s. 121.
474. No person may drive a road vehicle or combination of road vehicles whose load or equipment extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre at its farthest point unless a red flag or a reflector panel, and, at night, a red light visible from behind and from the sides for not less than 150 metres is installed at the farthest point. The flag or reflector panel and their installation must comply with any standards that may be prescribed by regulation.
The devices required under the first paragraph may be replaced by an amber light that meets the standards prescribed by regulation.
The first paragraph also applies to the operation of a tool vehicle whose equipment extends beyond the front or rear of the vehicle by more than one metre. The prescribed signs or signals must be visible from the front or the rear, as applicable, and from the sides from a distance of not less than 150 metres. If the equipment extends beyond the front of the vehicle, the light must be amber. If part of the equipment extends beyond the vehicle by more than 1.5 metres, an escort vehicle must precede or follow the vehicle, as the case may be, at a distance of not more than 50 metres with its hazard lights flashing.
The equipment is considered to extend beyond the tool vehicle when it has a point or a sharp edge that extends by at least 30 cm beyond the front or the rear of the vehicle. The starting point for measuring the part of the equipment that extends beyond the front or the rear of the tool vehicle is the end of the mast or boom to which the fork, bucket or other tool is attached.
No person may drive a tool vehicle on a public highway unless the vehicle’s equipment is in a retracted position.
The third and fifth paragraphs do not apply when the vehicle is being used to carry out work on a public highway.
1986, c. 91, s. 474; 1990, c. 83, s. 173; 1996, c. 56, s. 93; 2008, c. 14, s. 57; 2010, c. 34, s. 68.
474. No person may drive a road vehicle or combination of road vehicles whose load or equipment extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre at its farthest point unless a red flag or a reflector panel, and, at night, a red light visible from behind and from the sides for not less than 150 metres is installed at the farthest point. The flag or reflector panel and their installation must comply with any standards that may be prescribed by regulation.
The devices required under the first paragraph may be replaced by an amber light that meets the standards prescribed by regulation.
The first paragraph also applies to the operation of a tool vehicle whose equipment extends beyond the front or rear of the vehicle by more than one metre. The prescribed signs or signals must be visible from the front or the rear, as applicable, and from the sides from a distance of not less than 150 metres. If the equipment extends beyond the vehicle by more than 1.5 metres, an escort vehicle must precede or follow the vehicle at a distance of not more than 50 metres with its hazard lights flashing.
The third paragraph does not apply when the vehicle is being used to carry out work on a public highway.
1986, c. 91, s. 474; 1990, c. 83, s. 173; 1996, c. 56, s. 93; 2008, c. 14, s. 57.
474. No person may drive a road vehicle or combination of road vehicles whose load or equipment extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre at its farthest point unless a red flag or a reflector panel, and, at night, a red light visible from behind and from the sides for not less than 150 metres is installed at the farthest point. The flag or reflector panel and their installation must comply with any standards that may be prescribed by regulation.
The devices required under the first paragraph may be replaced by an amber light that meets the standards prescribed by regulation.
1986, c. 91, s. 474; 1990, c. 83, s. 173; 1996, c. 56, s. 93.
474. No person may drive a road vehicle or combination of road vehicles whose load or equipment extends beyond the rear of the road vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre at its farthest point unless a red flag or a reflector panel, and, at night, a red light visible from behind and from the sides for not less than 150 metres is installed at the farthest point. The flag or reflector panel and their installation must comply with any standards that may be prescribed by regulation.
1986, c. 91, s. 474; 1990, c. 83, s. 173.
474. The driver or the owner of the vehicle or combination of vehicles must instal a red flag or a reflector panel that conforms to the norms prescribed by regulation on the outer end of a load or equipment that extends beyond the rear of a motor vehicle or combination of road vehicles by more than 1 metre, and, at night, a red light visible for not less than 150 metres from the rear and from the sides.
1986, c. 91, s. 474.
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