Here's what the
AutoI website has to say about the "no blue because it's for cops" assumption:[/quote]
Here in Fla red & blue are not allowed!!
This includes neon and LED lighting
316.2397 Certain lights prohibited; exceptions.--
(1) No person shall drive or move or cause to be moved any vehicle or equipment upon any highway within this state with any lamp or device thereon showing or displaying a red or blue light visible from directly in front thereof except for certain vehicles hereinafter provided.
(2) It is expressly prohibited for any vehicle or equipment, except police vehicles, to show or display blue lights. However, vehicles owned, operated, or leased by the Department of Corrections may show or display blue lights when responding to emergencies. (Jail & Prison vehicles)
(3) Vehicles of the fire department and fire patrol, including vehicles of volunteer firefighters as permitted under s.
316.2398, vehicles of medical staff physicians or technicians of medical facilities licensed by the state as authorized under s.
316.2398, ambulances as authorized under this chapter, and buses and taxicabs as authorized under s.
316.2399 are permitted to show or display red lights. Vehicles of the fire department, fire patrol, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal and county departments, public service corporations operated by private corporations, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as are designated or authorized by their respective department or the chief of police of an incorporated city or any sheriff of any county are hereby authorized to operate emergency lights and sirens in an emergency. Wreckers, mosquito control fog and spray vehicles, and emergency vehicles of governmental departments or public service corporations may show or display amber lights when in actual operation or when a hazard exists provided they are not used going to and from the scene of operation or hazard without specific authorization of a law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency. Wreckers must use amber rotating or flashing lights while performing recoveries and loading on the roadside day or night, and may use such lights while towing a vehicle on wheel lifts, slings, or under reach if the operator of the wrecker deems such lights necessary. A flatbed, car carrier, or rollback may not use amber rotating or flashing lights when hauling a vehicle on the bed unless it creates a hazard to other motorists because of protruding objects. Further, escort vehicles may show or display amber lights when in the actual process of escorting overdimensioned equipment, material, or buildings as authorized by law. Vehicles of private watch, guard, or patrol agencies licensed pursuant to chapter 493 may show or display amber lights while patrolling condominium, cooperative, and private residential and business communities by which employed and which traverse public streets or highways.
(4) Road or street maintenance equipment, road or street maintenance vehicles, road service vehicles, refuse collection vehicles, petroleum tankers, and mail carrier vehicles may show or display amber lights when in operation or a hazard exists.
(5) Road maintenance and construction equipment and vehicles may display flashing white lights or flashing white strobe lights when in operation and where a hazard exists. Additionally, school buses and vehicles that are used to transport farm workers may display flashing white strobe lights.
(6) All lighting equipment heretofore referred to shall meet all requirements as set forth in s.
316.241.
(7) Flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles except as a means of indicating a right or left turn, to change lanes, or to indicate that the vehicle is lawfully stopped or disabled upon the highway or except that the lamps authorized in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4), and (9) and s.
316.235(5) are permitted to flash.
(8) Subsections (1) and (7) do not apply to police, fire, or authorized emergency vehicles while in the performance of their necessary duties.
(9) Flashing red lights may be used by emergency response vehicles of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Health when responding to an emergency in the line of duty. (10) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.
I have seen two instances where persons with prohibited equipment get nailed.
1. girl in a honda with thos blue lights on the washer nozels on the hood , they wrote her a ticket and removed them on the road side.
2. a male teen with a blue neon light in his window the officer told him to turn it off and the kid got mouthy (hmm that never seems to work out well)
the officer removed the light and arrested the kid for impersonating an officer resisting arrest w/o violence & possession of a blue light..
I never saw that kid again lol..
The misconception is well they sell it in the store..??..
If its illegal why do they sel lit?
yes its legal to sell and buy and can be used on private property (home or car shows) malls are concidered private property "open to the public" and police can enforce all traffic laws on such proerties with the exception of privately owned streets/gated communities (unless the property owners sign a release letting poice enforce all traffic laws inside the community.
P.S. I would want Black Lights as they make fosferous items glow
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