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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 45 | Motor Vehicles-Aeronautics-Watercraft
Chapter 4513 | Traffic Laws - Equipment; Loads
Section 4513.19 | Regulations for Focus, Aim, and Color of Headlights.
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OH Rev Code § 4513.19 (2025)
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Effective: July 10, 2014
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 161 - 130th General Assembly
(A) No person shall use any lights mentioned in sections 4513.03 to 4513.18 of the Revised Code upon any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer unless said lights are equipped, mounted, and adjusted as to focus and aim in accordance with regulations which are prescribed by the director of public safety.
(B) The headlights on any motor vehicle shall comply with the headlamp color requirements contained in federal motor vehicle safety standard number 108, 49 C.F.R. 571.108. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in violation of this division.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
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