A. The director is authorized to adopt standards and specifications applicable to lighting equipment on and special warning devices to be carried by school buses consistent with the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code [66-1-1 NMSA 1978] and supplemental thereto, except that the standards and specifications may designate and permit the use of flashing warning signal lights on school buses for the purpose of indicating when children are boarding or alighting from any school bus. Such standards and specifications shall correlate with and, so far as possible, conform to specifications approved by the society of automotive engineers. B. It is unlawful to operate any flashing warning signal light on any school bus except when the school bus is stopped or is about to stop on a roadway for the purpose of permitting school children to board or alight from the school bus. History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-348, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 452. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For special restrictions on lamps, see 66-3-835 NMSA 1978. Legislature intended these restrictions to only be operative outside residential and business districts, where vehicle speeds are apt to be greater and where the ons on lamps, see 66-3-835 NMSA 1978. Legislature intended these restrictions to only be operative outside residential and business districts, where vehicle speeds are apt to be greater and where the danger to children is accordingly greater. 1957 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 57-235.
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