It is legal to drive antique or collector public safety vehicles, like fire trucks and ambulances, with working red or other colored emergency lights in a parade, but technically it is illegal to drive them to the event.
Sponsored by Rep. Deb Kiel (R-Crookston),
HF922 would allow the vehicles to be driven on streets provided a proper collector or classic car license plate is displayed.
Passed 126-6 by the House May 10, the bill now goes to the Senate, where Sen. Ray Vandeveer (R-Forest Lake) is the sponsor.
The problem is that the lights on the vintage vehicles do not conform to current standards for what vehicles can display blue and red lights and where they have to physically be on the vehicle. Under the bill, the emergency lights on the vehicles cannot be used when travelling to or from an event.
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