Section
Equipment
71.01 Lighted lights required
71.02 Headlights
71.03 Tail lights and illumination of rear license plate
71.04 Red reflectors required
71.05 Safety lighting of commercial vehicles
71.06 Stop light regulations
71.07 Obscured lights on vehicles
71.08 Red light or flag required
71.09 Lights, emblems, and reflectors on slow-moving vehicles, farm machinery, agricultural tractors, and animal-drawn vehicles
71.10 Spotlight and auxiliary driving lights
71.11 Cowl, fender, and back-up lights
71.12 Two headlights displayed
71.13 Headlights required
71.14 Lights of less intensity
71.15 Number of lights permitted; flashing lights
71.16 Focus and aim of headlights
71.17 Roadworthiness
71.18 Tires
71.19 Solid tires
71.20 Brakes
71.21 Mufflers; excessive smoke or gas
71.22 Horns, sirens and warning devices
71.23 Rear vision mirror
71.24 (Reserved)
71.25 Police or fire radio communication
71.26 Doctor's green cross
71.27 (Reserved)
71.28 Display of license plates
71.29 Use of unauthorized plates
71.30 Windshields and wipers
71.31 Television sets in view of driver prohibited
71.32 Splash guards
71.33 Bumpers on motor vehicles
71.34 Lights on parked vehicles
71.35 Standards for lights on snow removal equipment and oversize vehicles
71.36 Flashing lights permitted for certain types of vehicles
71.37 Lights and sign on transportation for preschool children
71.38 Brake fluid
71.39 Minimum standards for brakes and components
71.40 Requirements for safety glass in motor vehicles; use of tinted glass or reflectorized material
71.41 Directional signals
71.42 Installation and sale of seat safety belts required; definition
71.43 Requirements for extra signal equipment
71.44 Display of warning devices on disabled vehicles
71.45 Air bags
Loads and Passengers
71.50 Projecting material left side
71.51 Deadening noises
71.52 All loads shall be properly secured
71.53 Requirements for vehicles transporting explosives
71.54 Obstruction and interference affecting view and control of driver
71.55 Hanging or riding on outside of motor vehicle prohibited
71.56 Dimensions of vehicles
71.57 Use of alleys
71.58 Prohibition as to vehicle trains
71.59 Weight of vehicle
71.60 Weight of load; width of tire
71.61 Maximum axle load, wheel load, and gross weights for pneumatic tired vehicles
71.62 Maximum axle load, wheel load, and gross weights for solid-tired vehicles
71.63 Inspection as to unlawful load
71.64 Damaging street surface
71.65 Excess load moving permit
EQUIPMENT
(A) Every vehicle, other than a motorized bicycle, operated upon a street or highway within this state shall display lighted lights and illuminating devices as required by sections 4513.04 to 4513.37 of the Revised Code during all of the following times:
(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 1,000 feet ahead;
(3) At any time when the windshield wipers of the vehicle are in use because of precipitation on the windshield.
(B) Every motorized bicycle shall display at such times lighted lights meeting the rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Public Safety under R.C. § 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.
(C) 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.
(D) 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.
(E) 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.
(F) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(R.C. § 4513.03)
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