FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 542
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KLINDT.
Read 1st time February 22, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time February 26, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Reported from the Committee March 15, 2001, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up April 3, 2001. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2065S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 307.100, RSMo 2000, relating to the use of warning signals on motor vehicles, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 307.100, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 307.100, to read as follows:
307.100. 1. Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than headlamps, spotlamps, front direction signals or auxiliary lamps which projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candlepower shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle. Alternately flashing warning signals may be used on school buses when used for school purposes and on motor vehicles when used to transport United States mail from post offices to boxes of addressees thereof and on emergency vehicles as defined in section 304.022, RSMo, and on buses owned or operated by churches, mosques, synagogues, temples or other houses of worship, but are prohibited on other motor vehicles, motorcycles and motor-drawn vehicles except as a means for indicating a right or left turn.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 307.120, violation of this section is an infraction.