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(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)
(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.
(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)
Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any light, except tail lights, which by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination need not be lighted, but this section does not affect the requirement that lighted clearance lights be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lights or that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.
(RC 4513.08; Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear four (4) feet or more beyond the bed or body of such vehicle, there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of the load, at the times specified in Section 437.02, a red light or lantern plainly visible from a distance of at least five hundred (500) feet to the sides and rear. The red light or lantern required by this section is in addition to the red rear light required upon every vehicle. At any other time there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of such load a red flag or cloth not less than sixteen (16) inches square.
(RC 4513.09; Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
Except in case of an emergency, whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway open to traffic or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in Section 437.02, such vehicle shall be equipped with one (1) or more lights which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle, and a red light visible from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the rear. No lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when it is stopped or parked where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or substantial object within a distance of five hundred (500) feet upon such street. Any lighted headlights upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.
(RC 4513.10; Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
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