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Featured Revised Missouri Statute Of The Month
The Featured Revised Missouri Statute Of The Month is intended to make the motoring public aware of laws pertaining to the legal and safe operation of motor vehicles. Each year new laws are passed and some old laws are changed or amended. The Missouri State Highway Patrol will be featuring a different law each month as an awareness for drivers of all ages. The Public Information and Education Division of the Missouri State Highway Patrol responds to questions concerning motor vehicle laws on a daily basis, and we will attempt to feature those laws generating the most attention.
This months featured law provides direction to drivers as to when lighted head lamps are required. The definitions section of RSMO Chapter 307 is quoted below:
"When lighted lamps are required" means at any time from a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred feet ahead. Lighted lamps shall also be required any time the weather conditions require usage of the motor vehicle's windshield wipers to operate the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner as defined in section 304.012, RSMo. The provisions of this section shall be interpreted to require lighted lamps during periods of fog even if usage of the windshield wipers is not necessary to operate the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner.
*The most recent change to this statute is highlighted in bold black print and was effective August 28, 2004.
