345.01 Driving unsafe vehicles; application; farm and road equipment exceptions.
345.02 When lighted lights required.
345.03 Measurement of distances and heights.
345.04 Headlights on motor vehicles and motorcycles.
345.05 Tail light; illumination of rear license plate.
345.06 Red light or red flag on extended loads.
345.07 Lights on parked or stopped vehicles.
345.08 Lights on slow-moving vehicles.
345.09 Spotlights and auxiliary lights.
345.10 Signal lamps and signal devices.
345.11 Cowl, fender and back-up lights; flashing hazard lights.
345.12 Multiple-beam road-lighting equipment requirements.
345.13 Use of headlight beams.
345.14 Single-beam road-lighting equipment.
345.15 Lights on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds.
345.16 Alternate road-lighting equipment.
345.17 Number of driving lights required or permitted.
345.18 Special restrictions on lights.
345.19 Motor vehicle or motorcycle brakes.
345.20 Inspection of brakes on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds.
345.21 Horn, siren and theft alarm signal.
345.22 Muffler; muffler cutout; excessive smoke, gas or noise.
345.23 Rear-view mirror.
345.24 Windshield to be unobstructed; windshield wiper.
345.25 Tire equipment restrictions.
345.26 Safety glass in motor vehicles. (Repealed)
345.27 Vehicles transporting explosives.
345.28 Video screens and monitors, television receivers in view of driver prohibited.
345.29 Safety equipment for motorcyclists, motor-cycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds.
345.30 Certification labels on mopeds.
345.31 Child passenger safety devices required; child safety seats and booster seats.
345.32 Certificate of inspection and approval.
345.33 Alteration of motor vehicles; bumper height limits.
345.34 Sun screening devices.
345.35 Operation of vehicles with safety belts.
345.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Obscured light on vehicles in combination - see W. Va. Code 17C-15-13
Warning devices for commercial vehicles - see W. Va. Code 17C-15-39
Bicycle equipment - see TRAF. Art. 373
(a) No person shall drive or move and no owner shall cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any street or highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, or which does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with such lamps and other equipment in proper condition and adjustment as required in this article, or which is equipped in any manner in violation of this article, or for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required under this article.
(b) Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit the use of additional parts and accessories on any vehicle not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
(c) The provisions of this article with respect to equipment on vehicles shall not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, road rollers or farm tractors except as herein made applicable. Every farm tractor equipped with an electric lighting system shall at all times mentioned in Section 345.02 display a red tail lamp and either multiple-beam or single-beam head lamps meeting the requirements of Section 345.02.
Every vehicle other than a school bus, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle or moped operated upon a street or highway within this Municipality at any time from sunset to sunrise or during fog, smoke, rain or other unfavorable atmospheric conditions, or at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the street or highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead shall display lighted head lamps and illuminating devices as hereinafter respectively required for different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles as provided for in Section 345.07(c). Every school bus, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle and moped shall display lighted head lamps at all times when upon the street or highway. Lighted lamps and other lighting devices that consist of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or other illuminating components that function as a single lighting unit are deemed to be functional so long as at least sixty-six percent of the LEDs or other illuminating components are functional; provided, that the lighted lamps or lighting devices must still project sufficient illumination to satisfy all other requirements contained in this article. (WVaC 17C-15-2)
(a) Whenever requirement is hereinafter 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 provisions shall apply during the times stated in Section 345.02 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level, unlighted street or highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or condition is expressly stated.
(b) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the mounted height of lamps or devices it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without a load.
(WVaC 17C-15-3)
(a) Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle or moped shall be equipped with at least two head lamps with at least one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle, which head lamps shall comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in this article.
(b) Every motorcycle, motor-driven cycle and moped shall be equipped with at least one and not more than two head lamps which shall comply with the requirements and limitations of this article.
(c) Every head lamp upon every motor vehicle, including every motorcycle, motor-driven cycle and moped, shall be located at a height measured from the center of the head lamp of not more than fifty-four inches nor less than twenty-four inches to be measured as set forth in Section 345.03.
(WVaC 17C-15-4)
(a) Every motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, and any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles, shall be equipped with at least one tail lamp mounted on the rear, which, when lighted as hereinbefore required, shall emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear, provided that in the case of a train of vehicles only the tail lamp on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen from the distance specified.
(b) Every tail lamp upon every vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than sixty inches nor less than twenty inches to be measured as set forth in Section 345.03(b).
(c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. Any tail lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.
(WVaC 17C-15-5)
Loading...