or potential disaster, mass casualty situation or substantial
threat to public health, a vehicle owned by a county or regional
police association and operated by a police officer that is used
for police transport or victim extraction, a vehicle that is
owned and operated by a county correctional institution in a
city of the first class and used to respond to an emergency at a
correctional institution in a city of the first class or to
escort an ambulance which is transporting sick or injured
prisoners in a city of the first class, any vehicle operated by
a special agent, special agent supervisor, narcotics agent or
narcotics agent supervisor while performing official duties as
employees of the Office of Attorney General, any vehicle owned
and operated by the Philadelphia Parking Authority established
in accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 55 (relating to parking
authorities) and used in the enforcement of 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 57
(relating to taxicabs and limousines in first class cities), a
vehicle owned by a city of the first class and operated by first
judicial district certified armed probation officers, a vehicle
owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that
is used by an emergency service responder as dispatched by the
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's traffic operations center, or
any other vehicle designated by the State Police under section
6106 (relating to designation of emergency vehicles by
Pennsylvania State Police), or a privately owned vehicle used in
answering an emergency call when used by any of the following:
(1) A police chief and assistant chief.
(2) A fire chief, assistant chief and, when a fire
company has three or more fire vehicles, a second or third
assistant chief.
(3) A fire police captain and fire police lieutenant.
(4) An ambulance corps commander and assistant
commander.
(5) A river rescue commander and assistant commander.
(6) A county emergency management coordinator.
(7) A fire marshal.
(8) A rescue service chief and assistant chief.
(9) The chief or operations director of a county
hazardous materials response team.
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"Solid waste collection vehicle." A vehicle used for the
curbside collection of municipal solid waste or recyclables.
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Section 2. Section 4572(a) introductory paragraph of Title
75 is amended and the subsection is amended by adding a
paragraph to read:
§ 4572. Visual signals on authorized vehicles.
(a) Flashing or revolving blue lights.--Ambulance personnel,
volunteer firefighters, certified volunteer search and rescue
organization members and owners and handlers of dogs used in
tracking humans may each equip one motor vehicle with no more
than two flashing or revolving blue lights. The following shall
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