Alaska Administrative Code

(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Notes 13 AAC 04.045 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.050 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.055 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.060 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.065 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

(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Notes 13 AAC 04.075 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.080 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.085 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

(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. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.110 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.115 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.120 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.125 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.130 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.135 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.140 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

(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. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.155 Repealed 7/23/70. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

Notes 13 AAC 04.160 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

(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 …

(a) A motor vehicle must be equipped, maintained, and operated so as to prevent excessive or unusual noise and the escape of fumes into the vehicle. A motor vehicle must be equipped with a muffler or other effective noise-suppressing system in good working order and in constant o…

(a) A motor vehicle must be equipped with a mirror mounted on the left side of the vehicle; every motor vehicle except a motor-driven cycle, bicycle, or off-highway vehicle, must be equipped with a mirror mounted either inside the vehicle approximately in the center, or outside t…

(a) A person may not drive a motor vehicle on a highway, public road, street, or parking lot with mirrored tinting material on any window of the vehicle. Except as provided in this section, a person may not drive a motor vehicle on a highway, public road, street or parking lot wi…

(a) No person may drive a motor vehicle which is not equipped with a windshield, nor may a person drive a motor vehicle equipped with a defective windshield or windows which obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's view. This section does not require a windshield as equipment …

(a) No vehicle may be driven upon a highway or a vehicular way or area with loose or defective wheels or steering assembly which constitutes a hazard. (b) No vehicle may be driven upon a highway or vehicular way or area with sharp protuberances, or with fenders, bumpers or other …

(a) No person may drive or move on a highway a motor vehicle or trailer having a metal tire in contact with the roadway. (b) No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway may have on its periphery a protuberance of a material other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the tra…

Notes 13 AAC 04.235 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…

(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:(1) …

(a) When a vehicle described in sec. 240(a) of this chapter is disabled, stopped, or parked on a shoulder of a highway outside a municipality in a manner which presents a hazard to traffic, and at a time when lights are required to be illuminated under sec. 10 of this chapter, th…

(a) Every school bus used for pupil transportation must be painted National School Bus Chrome Yellow (National Bureau of Standards Color #1305). No other vehicle may display this color. A bus originally painted and used as a school bus which is no longer used as a school bus must…

A vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel must (1) vent the fuel storage compartment at the lowest points; and (2) display, clearly and legibly, an approved sign or decal maintained in good condition and mounted on the outside of the fuel storage compartment bearing the words "COM…

(a) Every animal-driven vehicle and implement of husbandry or combination of these vehicles designed for or driven at speeds less than 25 miles per hour must be equipped with a slow-moving-vehicle emblem mounted on the rear, except that (1) when the towed unit or a load on the to…

(a) In this section, "air-conditioning equipment" means mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment used to cool the driver or passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. (b) Air-conditioning equipment must be manufactured, installed, and maintained with regard for the saf…

When a motor vehicle is equipped with an emission-control system or when a motor vehicle is required by a statute or regulation to have an emission-control system, the system must be maintained in good working order. Notes 13 AAC 04.257 Eff. 6/28/79, Register 70 Authority:AS 28.0…

(a) A motor vehicle driven in this state may not be equipped with television-type receiving equipment located where the viewer or screen is visible from the driver's seat. (b) A driver of a motor vehicle may not wear a headset, headphones, or other headgear designed for receiving…

(a) No person may drive a motor vehicle unless it has a device which effectively reduces the wheel spray or splash of water or other substance to the rear of the vehicle. (b) The device required in (a) of this section must be installed and maintained so that the device placed beh…

(a) A passenger car manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1965, must be equipped with lap belt assemblies for use in the driver's and one other front seat position. A motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1968, except a motorcycle or off-highway vehicle, m…

Motor vehicles used to transport prisoners, by state or municipal authorities, are exempt from the safety belt requirement under AS 28.05.095, due to the physical conditions of those being transported. Notes 13 AAC 04.271 Eff. 12/20/2002, Register 164 Authority:AS 28.05.011 AS 28…

If a motor vehicle was equipped, when assembled, with bumpers or other collision energy absorption or attenuation system, the system must be maintained in good operating condition, and no person may remove, disconnect, cause or knowingly permit the removal or disconnection of a p…

(a) A vehicle towed upon a street or highway must be coupled to its towing vehicle by means of a safety chain, chains, cable or equivalent device, in addition to the regular hitch or coupling. No additional connecting device may contain more slack than is necessary to permit prop…

Notes 13 AAC 04.280 Repealed 6/28/79. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compa…