{"data":{"id":"us-vt/23-v.s.a.-1303","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"23 V.S.A. § 1303","heading":"Flares required","body":"A person shall not operate a motor truck, except those registered at pleasure car rates and those registered with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 10,001 pounds, with or without a trailer or semi-trailer attached, or a motor bus, upon a highway outside the lighted area of a town or city, unless there shall be carried in such vehicle, ready at all hours for instant use, three electric flares or three reflector type flares of a type approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. However, if the vehicle is used in the transportation of hazardous material as defined in 5 V.S.A. § 2001(a)(1), three electric flares or three reflector type flares of a type specified in this section shall be carried.","path":["Title 23: Motor Vehicles","Chapter 013: Operation of Vehicles","Subchapter 014: EQUIPMENT"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/013/01303","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:05Z","sha256":"d192508fc5eca52213ae66aaf086c48bc4750808dd2a0675f3b3d70a7541128d","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/23-v.s.a.-1302","next":"us-vt/23-v.s.a.-1304"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}