FirstHB1265_S_TRA.001 RegularNOT SessionAMENDED Seventy-secondSENATE GeneralCOMMITTEE Assembly STATE OF COLORADOREFERENCE REENGROSSEDREPORT This_______________________________ VersionApril Includes23, All2019 AmendmentsChair Adoptedof inCommittee theDate HouseCommittee ofon IntroductionTransportation LLS& NO.Energy.

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e m A performing its service function and displaying its lights.

The bill states that a person commits a class A traffic offense if the persasses a snowplow that is operated by a state, county, or local government, displaying its lights, and performing its service function in echelon formation with one or more other such snowplows.

"Echelon formation" means a formation in which snowplows are arranged diagonally, with eachunitstationedbehindandtotheright,orbehindandtotheleft,ofthe unit ahead.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION1.

InColoradoRevisedStatutes,42-4-214,amend(1) and (6) as follows:

42-4-214.

Visual signals on service vehicles - definition.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, on or after January 1, 1978, every authorized service vehicle shaMUST , in addition to any other equipment required bythisarticleTICLE 4, be equipped with one ormorewarninglampsmountedashighaspracticable,whichshall MUST becapableofdisplayinginalldirectionsoneormoreflashing,oscillating, or rotating yellowlights.

Onlyyellowandnoother coloror combination of colors shallY be used as a warning lamp on an authorized service vehicle;

except that an authorized service vehicle snowplow operated by a general purposeSTATE ,COUNTY ,OR LOCAL government may also be equipped with and use no more than two flashing, oscillating, or rotating bluelightsaswarninglamps.Lighteddirectionalsignsusedbypoliceand highway departments to direct traffic need not be visible except to the front and rear.

Such lights shallST have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight.

(6) (a) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B traffic infraction;PT THAT A PERSON COMMITS A CLASS A TRAFFIC INFRACTION IF THE PERSON PASSES AN AUTHORIZED -2- 1265 SERVICEVEHICLESNOWPLOWTHATISOPERATEDBYASTATE ,COUNTY OR LOCALGOVERNMENT ,DISPLAYINGLIGHTSASAUTHORIZEDINSUBSECTION (1)OFTHISSECTION,ANDPERFORMINGITSSERVICEFUNCTIONINECHELON FORMATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER SUCH SNOWPLOWS .

(b) A S USED IN THIS SUBSECTION (6)UNLESS THE CONTEXT OTHERWISE REQUIRES , ECHELON FORMATION "MEANS A FORMATION IN WHICH SNOWPLOWS ARE ARRANGED DIAGONALLY , WITH EACH UNIT STATIONED BEHIND AND TO THE RIGHT,OR BEHIND AND TO THE LEF,OF THE UNIT AHEAD.

SECTION2.

InColoradoRevisedStatutes,42-4-224,amend(6) as follows:

42-4-224.

Horns or warning devices - definition.

(6)Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B traffic infraction;PT THAT A PERSON COMMITS A CLASS A TRAFFIC INFRACTION IF THE PERSON PASSES AN AUTHORIZED SERVICE VEHICLE SNOWPLOW THAT IS OPERATED BY A STATE , COUNTY , OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ,DISPLAYINGLIGHTSASAUTHORIZEDINSECTION 42-4-214, AND PERFORMING ITS SERVICE FUNCTION IN ECHELON FORMATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER SUCH SNOWPLOWS .

(b) A S USED IN THIS SUBSECTION (6),UNLESS THE CONTEXT OTHERWISE REQUIRES , ECHELON FORMATION "MEANS A FORMATION IN WHICH SNOWPLOWS ARE ARRANGED DIAGONALLY , WITH EACH UNIT STATIONED BEHIND AND TO THE RIGHT,OR BEHIND AND TO THE LEF,OF THE UNIT AHEAD.

SECTION 3.

Appropriation.

For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, $3,375 is appropriated to the department of revenue for use by the division of motor vehicles.

This appropriation is from the licensing -3- 1265 servicescashfundcreatedinsection42-2-114.5(1),C.R.S.Toimplement this act, the department may use this appropriation for DRIVES maintenance and support.

SECTION 4.

Act subject to petition - effective date.

This act takes effect at 12:01 a.m.

on the day following the expiration of the ninety-dayperiodafterfinaladjournmentofthegeneralassembly(August 2, 2019, if adjournment sine die is on May 3, 2019);

except that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2020 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.

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