§ 437.06 Safety Lighting on Commercial Vehicles

   (a)   (1)   The Ohio Director of Public Safety shall prescribe and promulgate regulations relating to clearance lights, marker lights, reflectors, and stop lights on buses, trackless trolleys, trucks, commercial tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers, when operated upon any highway, and such vehicles shall be equipped as required by such regulations, and such equipment shall be lighted at all times mentioned in Section 437.02, except that clearance lights and side marker lights need not be lighted on a vehicle when it is operated where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or substantial object on the street at a distance of five hundred (500) feet.

      (2)   Such equipment shall be in addition to all other lights specifically required by Sections 437.02 to 437.15. Vehicles operated under the jurisdiction of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission are not subject to this section.

   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

(RC 4513.07; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)