To repeal sections 307.020 and 307.040, RSMo 1994, relating to motor vehicle traffic regulations, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI,

AS FOLLOWS:

Section A. Sections 307.020 and 307.040, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof to be known as sections 307.020 and 307.040, to read as follows:

307.020. As used in sections 307.020 to 307.120, unless the context requires another or different construction:

(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) "Multiple-beam 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) "Single-beam 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 half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise, at any time when windshield wipers are needed to clear precipitation from the windshield, 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. 307.040. 1. No person shall drive, move, park or be in custody of any vehicle or combination of vehicles on any street or highway during the times when lighted lamps are required unless such vehicle or combination of vehicles displays lighted lamps and illuminating devices as hereinafter in this chapter required. No person shall use on any vehicle any approved electric lamp or similar device unless the light source of such lamp or device complies with the conditions of approval as to focus and rated candlepower.

2. No penalty shall be imposed for the failure to display lighted lamps for the reason that windshield wipers are needed to clear precipitation from the windshield until January 1, 1998.