437.01 Unsafe Vehicles
437.02 Time for Lighted Lights on Motor Vehicles
437.03 Headlights on Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles
437.04 Tail Light; Illumination of Rear License Plate
437.05 Rear Red Reflectors
437.06 Safety Lighting on Commercial Vehicles
437.07 Obscured Lights on Vehicles in Combination
437.08 Red Light or Red Flag on Extended Loads
437.09 Lights on Parked or Stopped Vehicles
437.10 Animal-Drawn or Slow-Moving Vehicles; Lamps; Reflectors and Emblems
437.11 Spotlight and Auxiliary Lights
437.12 Cowl, Fender and Back-Up Lights
437.13 Display of Lighted Lights
437.14 Use of Headlight Beams
437.15 Lights of Less Intensity on Slow-Moving Vehicles
437.16 Number of Lights; Limitations on Flashing, Oscillating or Rotating Lights
437.17 Regulations for Focus, Aim and Color of Headlights
437.18 Motor Vehicle and Motorcycle Brakes
437.19 Horn, Sirens, and Warning Devices
437.20 Muffler; Muffler Cutout; Excessive Smoke, Gas or Noise
437.21 Rear-View Mirror
437.22 Windshield and Windshield Wipers
437.23 Limited Load Extension on Left Side of Passenger Vehicle
437.24 Motor Vehicle Stop Lights
437.25 Air Cleaner Required
437.26 Child Restraint System Usage; Exceptions
437.27 Occupant Restraining Devices
437.28 Using Tinted Glass and Other Vision Obscuring Materials
437.29 Bumper Heights
437.30 Passenger Facial Coverings in Vehicles for Hire During the COVID-19 Pandemic
437.99 Penalty
Cross-reference:
Bicycle and mobility device signal devices, lights, reflectors, and brakes, CO 473.05
Litter thrown by persons in vehicles, CO 613.06
Mufflers required for engines, CO 605.12
Noise produced by motor vehicles that are out of repair, CO 605.10
Sounding motor vehicle horns unnecessarily, CO 605.10
Towing requirements, CO 439.10
Use of stop and turn signals, CO 431.14
Use of studded tires and chains, CO 439.14
Wheel protectors for commercial vehicles, CO 439.09
Bicycle and mobility device signal devices, lights, reflectors, and brakes, CO 473.05
Litter thrown by persons in vehicles, CO 613.06
Mufflers required for engines, CO 605.12
Noise produced by motor vehicles that are out of repair, CO 605.10
Sounding motor vehicle horns unnecessarily, CO 605.10
Towing requirements, CO 439.10
Use of stop and turn signals, CO 431.14
Use of studded tires and chains, CO 439.14
Wheel protectors for commercial vehicles, CO 439.09
Statutory reference:
See sectional histories for similar State law
Warning devices for commercial vehicles disabled upon freeways, RC 4513.28
See sectional histories for similar State law
Warning devices for commercial vehicles disabled upon freeways, RC 4513.28
(a) No person shall drive or move, or cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved, on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person.
(b) This chapter, with respect to equipment on vehicles, does not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, road rollers, or agricultural tractors except as made applicable to such articles of machinery.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.02(A), (G) & (H); Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(1) The time from sunset to sunrise;
(2) At any other time when, due to insufficient natural light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons, vehicles, and substantial objects on the highway are not discernible at a distance of one thousand (1,000) feet ahead;
(3) At any time when the windshield wipers of the vehicle are in use because of precipitation on the windshield.
Every motorized bicycle shall display at such times lighted lights meeting the rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Public Safety under RC 4511.521. No motor vehicle, during any time specified in this section, shall be operated upon a street or highway within this state using only parking lights as illumination.
Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible, or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, such distance shall be measured upon a straight level unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different condition is expressly stated.
Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to the mounted height of lights or devices, it shall mean from the center of such light or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no law enforcement officer shall cause the operator of a vehicle being operated upon a street or highway within this state to stop the vehicle solely because the officer observes that a violation of division (a)(3) of this section has been or is being committed or for the sole purpose of issuing a ticket, citation, or summons for a violation of that division, or causing the arrest of or commencing a prosecution of a person for a violation of that division.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.03; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) (1) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, and every trackless trolley, shall be equipped with at least two (2) headlights with at least one (1) near each side of the front of the motor vehicle or trackless trolley.
(2) Every motorcycle shall be equipped with at least one (1) and not more than two (2) headlights.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.04; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) (1) Every motor vehicle, trackless trolley, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least one (1) tail light mounted on the rear which, when lighted, shall emit a red light visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the rear, provided that in the case of a train of vehicles only the tail light on the rear-most vehicle need be visible from the distance specified.
(2) Either a tail light or a separate light shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate, when such registration plate is required, and render it legible from a distance of fifty (50) feet to the rear. Any tail light, together with any separate light for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlights or auxiliary driving lights are lighted, except where separate lighting systems are provided for trailers for the purpose of illuminating such registration plate.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.05; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) (1) Every new motor vehicle sold after September 6, 1941, and operated on a highway, other than a commercial tractor to which a trailer or semitrailer is attached, shall carry at the rear, either as a part of the tail lamps or separately, two (2) red reflectors meeting the requirements of this section, except that vehicles of the type mentioned in Section 437.06 shall be equipped with reflectors as required by the regulations provided for in that section.
(2) Every such reflector shall be of a size and characteristics and so maintained as to be visible at night from all distances within three hundred (300) feet to fifty (50) feet from the vehicle.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.06; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
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