FLT CREW OF ACR ACFT REFUSES TO ENTER RWY BY CROSSING ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS; ALTHOUGH ADVISED BY ATC THEY WERE MALFUNCTIONING. MAKE INTERSECTION TKOF FOR WHICH NO DATA WAS AVAILABLE INSTEAD.

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FOLLOWING PUSHBACK GATE; WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO TAXI VIA TXWYS K; B14; A; A11; HOLD SHORT OF RWY 32R. AS WE APCHED A11 AT TXWY A; THE PRECEDING ACFT WAS CLRED FOR TKOF AND WE WERE THEN TOLD TO DISREGARD THE ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS; AS THEY WERE MALFUNCTIONING. SINCE TAXIING ACROSS ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS IS IN VIOLATION OF COMPANY; FAA AND ICAO PROCS; I HELD SHORT OF A11 AND INFORMED THE TWR THAT WE COULD NOT PROCEED ONTO THE RWY WITH ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS. HE ASKED MY INTENTIONS AND I INQUIRED IF THE RED STOP BARS WERE ILLUMINATED AT A10. HE REPLIED THEY WERE NOT; SO I REQUESTED AN INTXN DEP FROM A10; WHICH WAS GRANTED. THOUGH NO AAM DATA FOR A10 WAS AVAILABLE; THE CUTBACK RWY-TKOF CORRECTIONS IN THE AOM WERE EASILY COMPLIED WITH AND WE DEPARTED WITH NO DELAY. A PROB COULD HAVE ARISEN IF WE HAD MADE THE TURN ONTO A11 AND WERE CONFRONTED WITH NONFUNCTIONAL RED STOP BARS. AS I UNDERSTAND IT; XING ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS IS PROHIBITED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. EVEN THOUGH CONDITIONS WERE DAYLIGHT AND CAVOK; USING COMMON SENSE AND GREAT CARE TO TAKE OFF WOULD STILL HAVE BEEN A VIOLATION IF ILLUMINATED RED STOP BARS WERE CROSSED.