2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-24 - Lighting Equipment and Reflectors
Chapter 31-24-38 - Color of clearance and marker lamps and reflectors.


RI Gen L § 31-24-38 (2012) What's This?

§ 31-24-38 Color of clearance and marker lamps and reflectors. – (a) Front clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color.

(b) Rear clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color.

(c) All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light or other signal device, which may be red, amber, or yellow, and except that the light illuminating the license plate or the light emitted by a back up lamp shall be white.

(d) Violations of this section are subject to fines enumerated in § 31-41.1-4.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 34, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 31-24-38; P.L. 2002, ch. 292, § 121.)

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