1. A. The Commissioner of Public Safety and the State Board of Education are authorized to adopt standards and specifications applicable to lighting equipment on and special warning devices to be carried by school buses consistent with the provisions of this chapter, but supplemental thereto. Such standards and specifications shall correlate with and, so far as possible, conform to the specifications then current as approved by the Society of Automotive Engineers. During the time any school bus is operating, the school bus shall have its headlights activated.
2. B. It shall be unlawful to operate any red flashing warning signal light on any school bus except when any said school bus is stopped on a highway for the purpose of permitting school children to board or alight from said school bus.
3. C. It shall be unlawful to operate any red flashing warning signal light on any church bus as defined in Section 11-705.1 of this title, except when any said bus is stopped on a highway for the purpose of permitting passengers to board or alight from said bus.

Laws 1961, p. 402, § 12-228, eff. Sept. 1, 1961; Laws 1973, c. 112, § 3; Laws 1978, c. 262, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Laws 1991, c. 91, § 1, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 1992, c. 81, § 1, eff. July 1, 1992; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 84 c. 189. § 4, eff. July 01,1999 (