337.10. Lights on slow-moving vehicles; emblem required.

   (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)

337.11. Spotlight and auxiliary lights.

   (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)

337.12. Cowl, fender and back-up lights.

   (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)

337.13. Display of lighted lights.

   (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.

337.14. Use of headlight beams.

   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)

337.15. Lights of less intensity on slow-moving vehicles.

   Any motor vehicle may be operated. under the conditions specified in Section 337.02 when it is equipped with two lighted lights upon the front thereof capable of revealing persons and substantial objects seventy-five feet ahead in lieu of lights required in Section 337.13, provided that such vehicle shall not be operated at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour.

(ORC 4513.16)

337.16. Number of lights; limitations on flashing, oscillating or rotating lights.

   (a)   Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights is also equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than 300 candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when such vehicle is upon a highway.

   (b)   Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights or auxiliary driving lights, which projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than 300 candle power shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle.

   (c)   Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means of indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, traffic line stripers, snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, vehicles transporting preschool children as provided in Ohio R.C. 4513.182, Ohio Department of Transportation maintenance vehicles, funeral hearses, funeral escort vehicles and similar equipment operated by the Department or local authorities, which shall be equipped with and display, when used on a street or highway for the special purpose necessitating such lights, a flashing, oscillating or rotating amber light, but shall not display a flashing, oscillating or rotating light of any other color, nor to vehicles or machinery permitted by Section 337.10 to have a flashing red light.

   (d)   Except a person operating a public safety vehicle, or a school bus, no person shall operate, move or park upon or permit to stand within the right of way of any public street or highway any vehicle or equipment which is equipped with and displaying a flashing red or a flashing combination red and white light, or an oscillating or rotating red light, or a combination red and white oscillating or rotating light; and except a public law enforcement officer, or other person sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the State or Municipality, operating a public safety vehicle when on duty, no person shall operate, move or park upon, or permit to stand within the right of way of any street or highway any vehicle or equipment which is equipped with, or upon which is mounted, and displaying a flashing blue or a flashing combination blue and white light, or an oscillating or rotating blue light, or a combination blue and white oscillating or rotating light. This section shall not prohibit the use of warning lights required by law or the simultaneous flashing of turn signals on disabled vehicles.

(ORC 4513.17)