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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.
(ORC 4513.08)
Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear four 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 337.02, a red light or lantern plainly visible from a distance of at least 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 inches square.
(ORC 4513.09)
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 337.02, such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lights which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle, and a red light visible from a distance of 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 500 feet upon such street. Any lighted headlights upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.
(ORC 4513.10)
(a) All vehicles other than bicycles, including animal-drawn vehicles and vehicles referred to in Section 337.01 (c), not specifically required to be equipped with lights or other lighting devices by Sections 337.02 to 337.09, shall at all times specified in Section 337.02, be equipped with at least one light displaying a white light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the front of the vehicle, and shall also be equipped with two lights displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear of the vehicle, or as an alternative, one light displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear and two red reflectors visible from all distances of 600 feet to 100 feet to the rear when illuminated by the lawful lower beams of headlights.
Lights and reflectors required by this section shall meet standards adopted and promulgated by the Ohio Director of Highway Safety.
(b) Every animal-drawn vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a slow-moving vehicle emblem complying with this subsection (b). All farm machinery and other machinery, including all road construction machinery, upon a street or highway, except when being used in actual construction and maintenance work in an area guarded by a flagman, or where flares are used, or when operating or traveling within the limits of a construction area designated by the authority having jurisdiction, when such construction area is marked in accordance with requirements of the authority having jurisdiction and the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, as set forth in Section 313.10, which is designed for operation at a speed of twenty-five miles an hour or less, shall be operated at a speed not exceeding twenty-five miles per hour, and shall display a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem (SMV).
The emblem shall be mounted so as to be visible from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the rear. The standards and specifications for the design and position of mounting the SMV emblem shall conform to requirements established by the Ohio Director of Highway Safety.
(c) The use of this emblem shall be restricted to the slowmoving vehicles specified in subsection (b) hereof operating or traveling within the limits of the highway. Its use on slow-moving vehicles being transported upon other types of vehicles or on any other type of vehicle or stationary object on the highway is prohibited.
(d) No person shall sell, lease, rent or operate any slow-moving vehicle, as defined in subsection (b) hereof, except those units designed to be completely mounted on a primary power unit, which is manufactured or assembled on or after April 1, 1966, unless the vehicle is equipped with a slow-moving vehicle emblem mounting device as specified in subsection (b) hereof.
(e) The slow-moving vehicles specified in subsection (b) hereof may, in addition to the use of the slow-moving vehicle emblem be equipped with a red flashing light which shall be visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear at all times specified in Section 337.02. When a double-faced light is used, it shall display amber light to the front and red light to the rear.
(ORC 4513.11)
(a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than one spotlight and every lighted spotlight shall be so aimed and based upon approaching another vehicle that no part of the high-intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle, nor more than 100 feet ahead of the vehicle.
(b) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than three auxiliary driving lights mounted on the front of the vehicle, which when used shall conform to specifications and regulations prescribed by the Ohio Director of Highway Safety.
(ORC 4513.12)
(a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with side cowl or fender lights or lights on each side thereof which shall emit a white or amber light without glare.
(b) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with back-up lights, either separately or in combination with another light. No back-up lights shall be continuously lighted when the motor vehicle is in forward motion.
(ORC 4513.13)
(a) At all times mentioned in Section 337.02 at least two State approved lighted lights shall be displayed, one near each side of the front of every motor vehicle, except when such vehicle is parked subject to the regulations governing lights on parked vehicles.
(ORC 4513.14)
(b) However, on a motorcycle, there shall be displayed at least one and not more than two lighted lights as required herein.
(c) The design and use of such lights shall conform to regulations prescribed and promulgated by the Ohio Director of Highway Safety.
Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on a roadway or shoulder adjacent thereto during the times specified in Section 337.02, the driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite beam, directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons, vehicles and substantial objects at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, except that upon approaching an oncoming vehicle, such distribution or beam shall be so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of the oncoming driver.
(ORC 4513.15)
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