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Sec. 18-82. Police, fire-fightirg and rescue vehicles ~ ambulances ex~ enpt from regulations in certain emergencies, exceptions ~ ~!tional req~ireuents. (a) The operator of C l) any rudder the direction of a police officer ~_u the chase violators of the law or persons violation, (2) any vehicle used for the irg publicly owned State ponse to a fire alarm or tical subdivion of the response to a fire alarm or an rescue or life saving vehicle designed or poses of supplying resuscitation e~gered, whether such profit corporation or the performance of under emergency cor~_itions, may, prosecution: (1) Proceed past red sign~l, light, stop sign or device indicating moving traffic shall stop if the speed and m.ovement of the vehicle is re- duced and controlled so ~hat it C~ pass a signal~ light or' deVice with due regard to the safety Of person~ and prOperty. ~' ~ ~ - (2) Park or stand no~vithstar~iing the provisions of tkis chapter. (3) Disregard regulations governing a direction of movement of ve- hicles turning in specified directions so ~lorg as . the ~ operator does not endanger life or property. (4) Pass or overtake, with due regard to the safety of persons and property, another vehicle at any intersection. (b) These exemptions, hereinbefore granted to such a moving vehicle, shall apply only when the operator of such vehicle displays a flashirg, blinking, or laternating red light* and sounds a ~iren, exhaust whistle, or ~1r horn designed to give antcmatically intermittent signals, as ~ be reaso.r~ly necessary, and, only when there is in force ar~ e~fec~ f~r sus~h~ vehicle standard automobile liability insurance covering injury Or death to any person in the sum of at least fifty thousard dollar~ b~cause of bedily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and subject to the limit for one person to a limit of three hundred thousand do]]srs because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, ar~ to a limit of five thousand dollars because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one aCcident~ Such ex~nptions shall not, however, prOtect the operator of any such vehicle from criminal prosecution for conduct constituting reckless disregard of the safety of persons and property. Nothing in this section shall be construed to re- lease the operator of ar~ such ve~icle from civil liability for failure to use reasonable care in such operation.