PUBLIC Law Chapter 167

emergency, motor vehicle accident, fire, hazardous materials

incident or other natural or man-made disaster or a training

operation, unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.

4.__Obeying public safety traffic flagger.__An operator of a
motor vehicle on a public way shall obey a request or signal of a
person who is reasonably identifiable as a public safety traffic
flagger.__A violation of this subsection is a traffic infraction.

5.__Registered owner's liability.__A person who is a
registered owner of a vehicle at the time that vehicle is
involved in a violation of subsection 4 commits a traffic
infraction.__For the purposes of this subsection, "registered
owner" includes a person issued a dealer or transporter
registration plate.

A.__A public safety traffic flagger who observes a violation
of subsection 4 may report the violation to a law
enforcement officer.__If a report is made, the public safety
traffic flagger shall report the time and the location of
the violation and the registration plate number and a
description of the vehicle involved.__The officer shall
initiate an investigation of the reported violation and, if
possible, contact the registered owner of the motor vehicle
involved and request that the registered owner supply
information identifying the operator of the registered
owner's motor vehicle at the time of the incident.

B.__The investigating officer may cause the registered owner
of the vehicle to be served with a summons for a violation
of this subsection.

C.__Except as provided in paragraph D, it is not a defense
to a violation of this subsection that a registered owner
was not operating the vehicle at the time of the violation.

D.__The following are defenses to a violation of this
subsection.

(1)__If a person other than the registered owner is
operating the vehicle at the time of the violation of

subsection 4 and is convicted of that violation, the
registered owner may not be found in violation of this
subsection.

(2)__If the registered owner is a lessor of vehicles and at the
time of the violation the vehicle was in the possession of a
lessee and the lessor provides the investigating officer with a
copy of the lease agreement containing the information required
by

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