North Dakota Code § 39-21-19.1

Vehicular hazard warning signals
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1. Any vehicle may be equipped with lamps for the purpose of warning the operators of 
other vehicles of the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of 
unusual care in approaching, overtaking, or passing.
2. After January 1, 1980, every bus, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer 
eighty inches [20.32 decimeters] or more in overall width or thirty feet [9.14 meters] or 
more in overall length must be equipped with lamps meeting the requirements of this 
section.
3. Vehicular hazard warning signal lamps used to display warning to the front must be 
mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and must 
display simultaneously flashing white or amber lights, or any shade of color between 
white and amber. The lamps used to display warning to the rear must be mounted at 
the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and must show 
simultaneously flashing amber or red lights, or any shade of color between amber and 
red. These warning lights must be visible from a distance of not less than five hundred 
feet [152.4 meters] in normal sunlight.

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