Alaska Administrative Code

(a) If the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, with assistance from the department or a municipality in accordance with AS 28.01.010, determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that a maximum speed prescribed for a commercial motor vehic…

(a) A person may not drive a commercial motor vehicle so slowly as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with a statute, regulation, or ordinance. (b) If the Department of Transportation…

(a) Reserved. (b) A person may not drive a commercial motor vehicle that is towing a mobile home at a speed greater than 45 miles per hour. (c) A person may not drive a commercial motor vehicle equipped with lighted headlights described in 13 AAC 04.020(g) at a speed greater than…

(a) Repealed 6/28/79. (b) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prohibit equipment required by the United States Department of Transportation or the use of a part or accessory on a vehicle not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. A federal motor vehicle safety …

No person may violate this chapter, drive or move or cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on a highway or other vehicular way or area, a vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in an unsafe condition, or is not equipped as required in this chapter or which is other…

No person may sell or offer for sale, rent, lease, or loan, a vehicle unless it is equipped with the devices and equipment required by this chapter or other law for operation on a highway or vehicular way or area, and is in a safe condition and in good working order. Notes 13 AAC…

(a) No person may sell or offer for sale or use a vehicle, equipment or device which does not meet the requirements of this chapter or other law. The provisions of this section do not apply to equipment that complies with requirements in effect before the effective date of this s…

(a) For a vehicle intended to be operated on a public roadway, no person may disconnect or alter, except as is necessary in the repair or replacement of parts, equipment required by this chapter, unless the equipment is by nature designed and intended for disconnection or alterat…

(a) A police officer or other person authorized by the department, having reasonable cause to believe that a vehicle is unsafe, not equipped as required in this chapter or in AS 28, or that its equipment is not in proper adjustment or repair, may require the driver of the vehicle…

(a) A police officer may issue a citation to the driver or owner of a vehicle which is not in safe mechanical condition or properly equipped as required in this chapter or in AS 28. A citation issued under this section must specify the section of this chapter or AS 28 which has b…

A driver or owner of a vehicle cited under 13 AAC 04.007, other than a commercial motor vehicle as defined in AS 28.32.900, may, at any time before the specified date for court appearance, appear at an Alaska State Trooper office, the office of the police agency that conducted th…

(a) No person may repair or adjust a vehicle unless the repair or adjustment is in accord with acceptable or customary repair practices, applicable provisions of this chapter and AS 28, or other law. (b) No person may willfully conceal or misrepresent the identity or condition of…

(a) Every vehicle traveling on a highway or other vehicular way or area within the state must illuminate lights (1) between one half hour after sunset and one half hour before sunrise; or (2) at any other time when, because of insufficient light or other atmospheric conditions, p…

(a) When a section of this chapter provides that the distance from which lights and reflectors must render objects visible or be visible, the requirement applies during the times provided in sec. 10 of this chapter for a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level, unlighted…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a motor vehicle must be equipped with at least two headlights, one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. The headlights must emit white light to the front of the vehicle, comply with the requirements and limitations set …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with at least two taillights mounted at the same level, as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and as low as practicable, but not less than 20 inches above the roadway on the rear, so that when light…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle must have on the rear, either as a part of the taillights or separately, two or more red reflectors mounted at a height not less than 20 inches, except that if the highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle i…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with two or more stop lights meeting the requirements of (c) of this section, except that passenger cars manufactured or assembled before January 1, 1958, must be equipped with at least one stop light. O…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a vehicle must be equipped with electric turn signal lights meeting the requirements of (b) of this section, except that passenger cars and trucks less than 80 inches in width, and manufactured or assembled before January 1, 1953,…

(a) Buses, Trucks, Trailers, Mobile Homes, Motor Homes, and Motor Vehicles with Truck Camper. Except as otherwise provided in (g) of this section and in addition to other equipment required in this chapter, a bus, truck, trailer, mobile home, motor home, or motor vehicle in combi…

Notes 13 AAC 04.045 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.050 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.055 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.060 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.065 Repealed 6/28/79.

(a) A vehicle must be equipped with one or more lights which, when illuminated, display a white or yellow light visible from a distance of 1000 feet to the front of the vehicle and a red light visible from a distance of 1000 feet to the rear of the vehicle. The light or lights mu…

Notes 13 AAC 04.075 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.080 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.085 Repealed 6/28/79.

(a) Every authorized emergency vehicle must, in addition to other equipment required by this chapter, be equipped with a signal light mounted as high as practicable, and which is capable of displaying to the front and rear flashing red color of sufficient intensity to be visible …

(a) Repealed 6/28/79. (b) Repealed 6/28/79. (c) The following vehicles must be equipped with a flashing yellow warning light visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight to either the front, rear or sides or from all positions: (1) a vehicle of the Department of Transportation and Publ…

(a) A school bus must, in addition to other equipment and distinctive markings required by this chapter, be equipped with signal lights mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which must display to the front two alternately flashing red lights located at th…

(a) A firefighter, an emergency medical service responder, or a police officer, with the concurrence of the chief of that person's department, when authorized under 13 AAC 02.517 or (i) of this section, may equip the person's motor vehicle with a flashing blue light that must be …

Notes 13 AAC 04.105 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.110 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.115 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.120 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.125 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.130 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.135 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.140 Repealed 6/28/79.

(a) When a motor vehicle equipped with headlights as required in this chapter is also equipped with an auxiliary light, spotlight, or other light on the front of the vehicle which projects a beam of intensity greater than 300 candlepower, no more than a total of four lights on th…

Notes 13 AAC 04.150 Repealed 6/28/79.

Notes 13 AAC 04.155 Repealed 7/23/70.

Notes 13 AAC 04.160 Repealed 6/28/79.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, every motor vehicle and every combination of vehicles must have a service braking system which will stop the vehicle or combination of vehicles within 40 feet from an initial speed of 20 miles per hour on a level, dry, smooth, cle…

(a) A motor vehicle operated upon a highway or other vehicular way or area, except for snowmobiles, must be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of at least 200 feet, but no horn or other warning …