2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 307 Vehicle Equipment Regulations
Section 307.060 Multiple-beam headlamps — arrangement — violation, penalty.
Effective 28 Aug 1996
Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 307307.060. Multiple-beam headlamps — arrangement — violation, penalty. — 1. Except as hereinafter provided, the headlamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or the auxiliary passing lamp or combination thereof on motor vehicles other than motorcycles or motor driven cycles shall be so arranged that the driver may select at will between distributions of light projected to different elevations and such lamps may, in addition, be so arranged that such selection can be made automatically, subject to the following limitations:
(1) There shall be an uppermost distribution of light, or composite beam, so aimed and of such intensity as to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least three hundred and fifty feet ahead for all conditions of loading.
(2) There shall be a lowermost distribution of light, or composite beam so aimed and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least one hundred feet ahead; and on a straight level road under any condition of loading none of the high-intensity portion of the beam shall be directed to strike the eyes of an approaching driver.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 307.120, violation of this section shall be deemed an infraction.
(L. 1941 p. 438 § 8386n, A.L. 1955 p. 626, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1047)
