California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 7 - Flashing and Colored Lights

• Section 25250.
  Flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles except as otherwise permitted.(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 223.)
• Section 25251.
  (a) Flashing lights are permitted on vehicles as follows:(1) To indicate an intention to turn or move to the right or left upon a roadway, turn signal...
• Section 25251.1.
  Any implement of husbandry displaying a slow moving vehicle emblem, as defined in Section 24615, and being operated at a speed of 25 miles per...
• Section 25251.2.
  Any motorcycle may be equipped with a means of modulating the upper beam of the headlamp between a high and a lower brightness at a...
• Section 25251.3.
  No civil liability shall attach to any person for the use or nonuse of turn signal lamps in the manner permitted by paragraph (3) or...
• Section 25251.4.
  Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a theft alarm system which flashes any of the lights required or permitted on the motor vehicle...
• Section 25251.5.
  (a) Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a system in which an amber light is center mounted on the rear of a vehicle to...
• Section 25252.
  Every authorized emergency vehicle shall be equipped with at least one steady burning red warning lamp visible from at least 1,000 feet to the front...
• Section 25252.5.
  (a) Every authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with a system which flashes the upper-beam headlamps of the vehicle with the flashes occurring alternately from the...
• Section 25253.
  (a) Tow trucks used to tow disabled vehicles shall be equipped with flashing amber warning lamps. This subdivision does not apply to a tractor-trailer combination.(b) Tow trucks...
• Section 25253.1.
  An automobile dismantler’s tow vehicle used to tow a disabled vehicle may be equipped with flashing amber warning lamps.A flashing amber warning lamp upon an...
• Section 25254.
  In any county with a population of 250,000 or more persons, publicly owned vehicles operated by peace officer personnel of a marshal’s department, when actually...
• Section 25256.
  Vehicles used by highway authorities or bridge and highway districts, and vehicles of duly authorized representatives thereof, used in highway maintenance, inspection, survey or construction...
• Section 25257.
  (a) Every schoolbus, when operated for the transportation of schoolchildren, shall be equipped with a flashing red light signal system.(b) (1) Every schoolbus manufactured on or after September...
• Section 25257.2.
  If a schoolbus is used for the transportation of persons of any age who are developmentally disabled, as defined by the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services...
• Section 25257.5.
  To warn other motorists or pedestrians on a roadway during a backing maneuver, the operator of a schoolbus may flash turn signal lamps if the...
• Section 25257.7.
  (a) A schoolbus may be equipped with a white strobe light mounted so as to be visible from the front, sides, or rear of the bus....
• Section 25258.
  (a) An authorized emergency vehicle operating under the conditions specified in Section 21055 may display a flashing white light from a gaseous discharge lamp designed and...
• Section 25259.
  (a) Any authorized emergency vehicle may display flashing amber warning lights to the front, sides, or rear.(b) A vehicle operated by a police or traffic officer while...
• Section 25259.1.
  (a) Any vehicle operated by a disaster service worker who has received training in accordance with subdivision (b) and used by that worker in the performance...
• Section 25259.5.
  An emergency response or disaster service vehicle owned or leased and operated by the American National Red Cross, or any chapter or branch thereof, and...
• Section 25260.
  (a) Public utility vehicles, and vehicles of duly authorized representatives of a public utility, actually engaged in the construction, removal, maintenance, or inspection of public utility...
• Section 25260.1.
  Vehicles actually engaged in the construction, removal, maintenance, or inspection of any oil or gas pipeline may display flashing amber warning lights to the front,...
• Section 25260.3.
  Any vehicle having personnel aerial lift equipment, actually engaged in the construction, removal, maintenance or inspection of any building, structure, or appurtenances thereto, including the...
• Section 25260.4.
  Any hazardous substance spill response vehicle, under contract to the Department of Transportation for the cleanup of hazardous substance spills, may display flashing amber warning...
• Section 25261.
  Vehicles used by a county or county department of agriculture and vehicles of duly authorized representatives thereof, actually engaged in weed control or pest detection,...
• Section 25262.
  An armored car may be equipped with red lights which may be used while resisting armed robbery. At all other times the red lights shall...
• Section 25263.
  Trucks actually engaged in the towing of houses or buildings upon any highway may display flashing amber warning lights to the front, sides or rear...
• Section 25264.
  Any motor vehicle operated by a coroner, or by a deputy coroner, and which is at the scene of any violent highway death, may display...
• Section 25265.
  Repair vehicles of sanitary districts or county sanitation districts necessarily parked other than adjacent to the curb in a highway for purposes of repairing district...
• Section 25266.
  Vehicles owned by the state and operated by officers or employees of the state who are actually engaged in aqueduct or levee construction, maintenance, patrol,...
• Section 25267.
  Vehicles used by mosquito abatement districts or pest abatement districts when dispersing insecticides may display flashing amber warning lights to the front or rear while...
• Section 25268.
  No person shall display a flashing amber warning light on a vehicle as permitted by this code except when an unusual traffic hazard exists.(Added by...
• Section 25269.
  No person shall display a flashing or steady burning red warning light on a vehicle except as permitted by Section 21055 or when an extreme...
• Section 25270.
  Any pilot car required by the permit referred to in Section 35780 or 35790, or any vehicle or combination of vehicles subject to the permit...
• Section 25270.5.
  Any motor vehicle engaged in, or aiding in, the herding of livestock along or across a public roadway may display flashing amber warning lights to...
• Section 25271.
  Any publicly owned vehicle or any vehicle operated by a corporation incorporated under Part 4 (commencing with Section 10400) of Division 2 of Title 1...
• Section 25271.5.
  Any publicly owned vehicle used for the enforcement of animal control laws contained in a statute, local ordinance, or regulation may display flashing or revolving...
• Section 25272.
  A motor vehicle used by a rural mail carrier may display flashing amber warning lights to the front and rear of the vehicle while the...
• Section 25273.
  Any motor vehicle owned and operated by a school district with an average daily attendance in excess of 400,000 while being used to measure the...
• Section 25274.
  Any vehicle owned by a cable television company and operated by employees, or duly authorized representatives, of a cable television company, when actually engaged in...
• Section 25275.
  Any truck or truck tractor which is primarily used in the transportation of loads specified in subdivision (a) of Section 35414, may be equipped with...
• Section 25275.5.
  Any bus operated either by a public agency or under the authority of a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utilities...
• Section 25276.
  (a) A motor vehicle designed for carrying more than eight persons, including the driver, owned by a private, nonprofit organization that provides training or other activities...
• Section 25277.
  Any vehicle used by any police department, sheriff’s office, or other governmental agency for the purpose of enforcing parking laws contained in the Vehicle Code...
• Section 25278.
  Any vehicle owned or operated by a land surveyor or civil engineer licensed to practice in this state may display flashing amber warning lights to...
• Section 25279.
  (a) Vehicles owned and operated by private security agencies and utilized exclusively on privately owned and maintained roads to which this code is made applicable by...
• Section 25280.
  Vehicles operated by a local public entity, or pursuant to a permit, license, contract, or franchise with a local public entity, and used to collect...
• Section 25281.
  A privately owned or operated water tender vehicle, when used exclusively for contract emergency services provided to any public agency, may display flashing amber warning...
• Section 25282.
  Any vehicle owned or operated by a contractor or a construction company licensed to operate in this state pursuant to the Business and Professions Code...

Last modified: October 22, 2018