SF0034 Roadside safety-amendments. | Wyoming Bill

Roadside safety-amendments.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring traffic to yield to roadside service and tire repair vehicles as specified; authorizing roadside service and tire repair vehicles to display flashing lights; exempting roadside service and tire repair vehicles from horn and siren requirements; and providing for an effective date.

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Roadside Safety Rules

The bill requires traffic to yield to roadside service and tire repair vehicles with flashing lights and exempts these vehicles from horn and siren requirements.

What This Bill Does

Requires other drivers to yield when roadside service or tire repair vehicles are present and using visual signals.

Authorizes roadside service and tire repair vehicles to display flashing white and amber lights.

Allows roadside service and tire repair vehicles to use red and blue flashing lights at emergency scenes or while providing services.

Exempts roadside service and tire repair vehicles from needing sirens, whistles, or bells.

Who It Names or Affects

Drivers who must yield when they see roadside service or tire repair vehicles with flashing lights.

Roadside service and tire repair workers who can now use flashing lights and are exempt from siren requirements.

Terms To Know

Visual signals

Lights or other visible signs used by vehicles to warn others of their presence.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not signed into law.

It only affects Wyoming state laws and does not apply to other states.

Details about how drivers should react in specific situations are not provided.

Bill History

2026-02-16 Senate

S COW:Failed 8-22-1-0-0

2026-02-12 Senate

S Placed on General File

2026-02-12 Senate

S08 - Transportation:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0

2026-02-10 Senate

S Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation 27-3-1-0-0

2026-01-05 Senate

S Received for Introduction

2026-01-02 LSO

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Current Bill Text

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26LSO-0331
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0331
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0034

Roadside safety-amendments.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Barlow, Anderson, Cooper and Pappas and Representative(s) Brown, L, Geringer, Larsen, L, McCann and Wylie

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring traffic to yield to roadside service and tire repair vehicles as specified; authorizing roadside service and tire repair vehicles to display flashing lights; exempting roadside service and tire repair vehicles from horn and siren requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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224(b)(intro), 31
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928(f)(iii) and (g) and 31
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952(d) are amended to read:

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224.

Operation of vehicles upon approach of authorized emergency vehicles and other parked or slow
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moving vehicles.

(b)

When an authorized municipal, public utility or highway construction or maintenance vehicle is stopped or is moving at less than twenty (20) miles per hour on or within three (3) feet of a roadway and is making use of any visual signals provided for in W.S. 31
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5
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928(d), (f)(ii)
and (iii)
, (h) or 31
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930, the driver of every other vehicle, as soon as it is safe:

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5
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928.

General lighting restrictions; authorized emergency vehicles.

(f)

The following vehicles are authorized to display flashing white and amber lights in addition to those otherwise authorized by law:

(iii)

Wreckers
, roadside service and tire repair vehicles
;

(g)

In addition to these lights otherwise authorized by law, a wrecker
, roadside service or tire repair vehicle
is authorized to display flashing red and blue lights at the scene of any emergency
or when performing roadside services
.

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5
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952.

Horns and warning devices.

(d)

Every authorized emergency vehicle, except wreckers,
roadside service and tire repair vehicles,
shall be equipped with a siren, whistle or bell, capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than five hundred (500) feet and of a type approved by the superintendent, but the siren shall not be used except when the vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, in which case the driver of the vehicle shall sound the siren when reasonably necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach thereof.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)

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