Alaska Administrative Code
Title 13 - Public Safety
Part 1 - Division of Alaska State Troopers
Chapter 04 - Motor Vehicle and Driving Offenses: Vehicle Equipment and Inspection
Article 4 - Brakes and Other Equipment
13 AAC 04.240 - Certain vehicles to carry flares or other devices

(a) Except as provided in (c) of this section, no person may drive a truck, bus, truck-tractor or a motor vehicle towing a mobile home or pole trailer upon a highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality unless there is carried in the vehicle the following equipment:

(b) No person may drive at night, or other times set out in sec. 10 of this chapter, a motor vehicle used for the transportation of an explosive, a cargo tank truck used for the transportation of a flammable liquid or a compressed gas, or a motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel, unless there is carried in the vehicle three red electric lanterns or three portable red emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of (c) of this section. A vehicle listed in this subsection may not carry in the vehicle a flare, fusee, or another signal produced by flame.

(c) No flare, fusee, electric lantern or portable reflector unit may be used for compliance with the requirements of this section unless the device is designed and constructed so as to be capable of displaying or reflecting red light clearly visible and distinguishable from all distances within 600 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night or other times set out in sec. 10 of this chapter, when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlights required by this chapter.