Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
[Comment: For dates and availability of
material incorporated by reference in this rule, see rule
4501-15-12
of the Administrative Code.]
(A)
Clearance lamps, marker lamps, stop lamps, and reflectors on commercial motor
vehicles shall be constructed to conform to appropriate requirements of the
S.A.E. standard for clearance, side-marker, identification and parking lamps,
or the S.A.E. standard for stop lamps, or the S.A.E. standard for reflex
reflectors and shall be installed at locations on the vehicle in accordance
with the current federal motor carrier safety regulations.
(B) In addition to the other equipment
required in sections 4513.04 to
4513.18 of the Revised Code, the
following vehicles shall be equipped as herein stated under the conditions
stated in section 4513.07 of the Revised Code, and
in addition, the reflectors elsewhere enumerated for such vehicles shall
conform to the requirements of section
4513.06 of the Revised Code.
(1) Buses, trucks and motor homes eighty
inches or more in overall width:
(a) On the
front, two clearance lamps, one at each side, and on vehicles manufactured or
assembled after January 1, 1967, three identification lamps meeting the
specifications of subdivision (1) of S.A.E. standard for clearance,
side-marker, identification, and parking lamps.
(b) On the rear, two clearance lamps, one at
each side, and after January 1, 1967, three identification lamps meeting the
specifications of subdivision (1) of S.A.E. standard for clearance,
side-marker, identification, and parking lamps.
(c) On each side, two side marker lamps, one
at or near the front and one at or near the rear.
(d) On each side, two reflectors, one at or
near the front and one at or near the rear.
(2) Trailers, semitrailers, fifth-wheel
trailers and travel trailers eighty inches or more in overall width:
(a) On the front, two clearance lamps, one at
each side.
(b) On the rear, two
clearance lamps, one at each side.
(c) On each side, two side marker lamps, one
at or near the front and one at or near the rear.
(d) On each side, two reflectors, one at or
near the front and one at or near the rear.
(e) After January 1, 1967, on the rear, three
identification lamps.
(3) Commercial tractors:
On the front, two cab clearance lamps, one at each side, and on
vehicles manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1967, three identification
lamps meeting the specifications of subdivision (1) S.A.E. standard for
clearance, side-marker, identification, and parking lamps.
(4) Trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers,
fifth-wheel trailers, travel trailers, trucks, buses, and motor homes thirty
feet or more in overall length:
On each side, one amber side marker lamp and one amber
reflector, centrally located with respect to the length of the vehicle.
(5) Pole trailers:
(a) On each side, one amber side marker lamp
at or near the front of the load.
(b) On each side, one amber reflector at or
near the front of the load.
(c) On
the rearmost support for the load, one combination marker lamp showing amber to
the front and red to the rear and side, mounted to indicate maximum width of
the pole trailer.
(6)
Combination driveaway-towaway operation:
(a)
On the front, two cab clearance lamps, one on each side.
(b) On each side and near the front, one side
marker lamp.
(c) On each saddle
mounted vehicle, on each side and near the rear, one side marker
lamp.
(d) On rearmost vehicle, two
clearance lamps and two reflectors, one at each side.
(e) Marker lamps and clearance lamps may be
temporarily mounted on motor vehicles during the time they are in transit in
any driveaway operation but in any case, must be firmly attached to the motor
vehicles.
(C)
Multi-wheeled agricultural tractors, units of farm machinery:
(1) Every multi-wheeled agricultural tractor
whose model year was 2001 or earlier, when being operated or traveling on a
street or highway at times specified in section
4513.03 of the Revised Code at a
minimum shall be equipped, on the extreme left and right projection of the
tractor, with amber flashing lamps visible to the front and rear of the
tractor, and visible from a distance of five hundred feet. The placement of
these lamps shall correlate with and, to the extent not inconsistent with
section 4513.111 of the Revised Code,
conform with chapters 3 and 4 of the American
society of agricultural engineers standard ANSI/ASAE S 279.17
JUL2013, lighting and marking of agricultural equipment on highways.
These lamps are in addition to the slow-moving vehicle lamps permitted by
sections 4513.11 and
4513.17 of the Revised
Code.
(2) Every unit of farm
machinery whose model year was 2002 or later, when being operated or traveling
on a street or highway at times specified in section
4513.03 of the Revised Code
shall be equipped with illuminated lamps that meet or exceed the standards that
are applicable to that type of farm machinery for the unit's model year
specified in the American society of agricultural engineers standard
ANSI/ASAE S 279.17 JUL2013, lighting and marking of
agricultural equipment on highways.
(D) Whenever required or permitted by this
chapter, identification lamps shall be grouped in a horizontal row, with lamp
centers spaced not less than six nor more than twelve inches apart, and mounted
on the permanent structure of the vehicle as close as practicable to the
vertical centerline; provided, however, that where the cab of a vehicle is not
more than forty-two inches wide at the front roof line, a single identification
lamp at the center of the cab shall be deemed to comply with the requirements
for front identification lamps.
(E)
Color of clearance lamps, identification lamps, side marker lamps, back-up
lamps, stop lamps, turn signals, license plate illuminating light, and
reflectors:
(1) Front clearance lamps,
identification 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 amber
color.
(2) Rear clearance lamps,
identification 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 red
color.
(3) The stop lamps shall be
red in color. The turn signals facing to the rear shall be red or amber. The
turn signals facing to the front shall be amber. The light illuminating the
license plate shall be white. The light emitted by a back-up lamp shall be
white.
(F) Mounting of
reflectors, clearance lamps and side marker lamps:
(1) Reflectors when required by section
4513.07 of the Revised Code
shall be mounted at a height not less than twenty-four inches and not higher
than sixty inches above the ground on which the vehicle stands, except that if
the highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle is less than
twenty-four inches the reflector at such point shall be mounted as high as that
part of the permanent structure will permit.
The rear reflectors on a pole trailer may be mounted on each
side of the bolster or load.
Any required red reflector on the rear of a vehicle may be
incorporated with the tail lamp, but such reflector shall meet all the other
reflector requirements of this chapter.
(2) Clearance lamps shall be mounted on the
permanent structure of the vehicle in such a manner as to indicate its extreme
width and as near the top thereof as practicable. Clearance lamps and side
marker lamps may be mounted in combination provided illumination is given as
required herein with reference to both.
(G) Visibility requirements for reflectors,
clearance lamps, identification lamps and marker lamps:
(1) Every reflector upon any vehicle referred
to in section 4513.07 of the Revised Code
shall be of such size and characteristics and so maintained as to be readily
visible at night-time from all distances within six hundred feet to one hundred
feet from the vehicle shall reflect the required color of light to the sides,
and those mounted on the rear shall reflect a red color to the rear.
(2) Front and rear clearance lamps and
identification lamps shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under
normal atmospheric conditions at the times lights are required at all distances
between five hundred and fifty feet from the front and rear, respectively, of
the vehicle.
(3) Side marker lamps
shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric
conditions at the times lights are required at all distances between five
hundred fifty feet from the side of the vehicle on which mounted.
Effective: 5/25/2015
Five Year
Review (FYR) Dates: 03/10/2015 and
03/09/2020
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: R.C. 4513.19, R.C. 4513.111, R.C.
4513.07
Rule Amplifies: R.C. 4513.19, R.C. 4513.111, R.C.
4513.07
Prior Effective Dates: 11/17/66, 10/16/82, 6/1/00, 7/23/01,
7/25/04, 5/27/10
