SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 840 & 841

88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Reported from the Committee on Motor Vehicle & Traffic Regulations, February 29, 1996, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for House Bills Nos. 840 & 841 Do Pass.

DOUGLAS W. BURNETT, Chief Clerk

L1883.03C

AN ACT

To repeal section 307.020, RSMo 1994, relating to the operation of motor vehicles, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 307.020, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 307.020, to read as follows:

307.020. As used in sections 307.020 to 307.120, [unless the context requires another or different construction] the following terms mean:

(1) "Approved" [means], approved by the director of revenue and when applied to lamps and other illuminating devices means that such lamps and devices must be in good working order;

(2) "Auxiliary lamp" [means], an additional lighting device on a motor vehicle used primarily to supplement the headlamps in providing general illumination ahead of a vehicle;

(3) "Headlamp" [means], a major lighting device capable of providing general illumination ahead of a vehicle;

(4) "Mounting height" [means], the distance from the center of the lamp to the surface on which the vehicle stands;

(5) "Multiplebeam headlamps" [means], headlamps or similar devices arranged so as to permit the driver of the vehicle to use one of two or more distributions of light on the road;

(6) "Reflector" [means], an approved device designed and used to give an indication by reflected light;

(7) "Singlebeam headlamps" [means], headlamps or similar devices arranged so as to permit the driver of the vehicle to use but one distribution of light on the road;

(8) "Vehicle" [means], every device in, upon or by which a person or property is or may be transported upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;

(9) "When lighted lamps are required" [means], at any time from a halfhour after sunset to a halfhour before sunrise, at anytime when rain, snow, fog or other atmospheric conditions require the use of windshield wipers, 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.