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Superintendent. Only law enforcement vehicles may be equipped with flashing, blinking or alternating blue or blue and red emergency lights of types approved by the superintendent. Vehicles permitted by this section to be equipped with flashing, blinking or alternating red, red and white, blue or blue and red emergency lights may be equipped with the means to flash their headlamps when their emergency warning lights are activated if; (i) the headlamps are wired to allow either the upper beam or lower beam to flash, but not both, and (ii) the headlamp system includes a switch or device which prevents flashing of headlamps when headlamps are required to be lighted under Section 22-183 of this Code. (k) Privately owned passenger cars used for home delivery of commercially prepared food may be equipped with one steady-burning white light for the nighttime illumination of a sign identifying the business delivering the food. Such sign shall not utilize primarily green, red or blue colors. Such sign shall not exceed eighteen inches in height nor have more than four sides, no side of which shall exceed fifteen by twenty-four inches. Such light shall emit diffused illumination of such an intensity as not to protect a glaring or a dazzling light. Such light may only be illuminated during delivery. (L) A violation of any provision of this section shall constitute a Class 1 misdemeanor. Section 22-238. Same-Commercial vehicles operating on certain highways. No commercial vehicle shall exceed one hundred two (102) inches in width when operating on any federal interstate and defense highway, or on any qualifying federal aid primary highway designated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The width limitation in this section shall not include rearview mirrors, turn signal lamps, handholds or cab entry and egress, splash-suppressant devices and load-induced tire bulge. Safety devices, with the exception of rearview mirrors, shall not extend more than three (3) inches on each side of a vehicle. Such vehicles shall not be denied reasonable access to terminals, facilities for food, fuel, repairs and rest, except as designated, based on safety considerations, by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Household goods carriers and any tractor truck semitrailer combination in which the semitrailer has a length of no more than twenty-eight and one-half fee and which operates as part of a tractor truck semitrailer combination shall not be denied reasonable access to points of loading and unloading, except as designated, based on safety considerations, by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. For the purposes of this section, a commercial vehicle is defined as a loaded or empty motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer designed or regularly used for carrying freight merchandise, or more than ten