Bill Title: To require the headlights of a vehicle to be lighted when its windshield wipers are in use.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-24 - To Transportation & Infrastructure
[HB45 Detail]Download: Ohio-2009-HB45-Introduced.html
As Introduced
| 128th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Phillips, Pryor, Murray, Koziura, Letson, Yuko, Chandler, Winburn, Bolon
A BILL | To amend section 4513.03 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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require the headlights of a vehicle to be lighted | 2 |
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when its windshield wipers are in use. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 4513.03 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
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amended to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 4513.03.
(A) Every vehicle, other than a motorized | 6 |
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bicycle, operated upon a street or highway
within this state shall | 7 |
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display lighted lights and illuminating devices as required by | 8 |
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sections 4513.04 to 4513.37 of the Revised Code during all of the | 9 |
| following times: | 10 |
(1) The time from sunset
to sunrise, and at; | 11 |
(2) At
any other time when there
are, due to insufficient | 12 |
natural light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions
or when there | 13 |
is not
sufficient natural light to render
discernible, persons, | 14 |
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vehicles,
and substantial objects on the
highway are not | 15 |
discernible at a distance of one
thousand feet ahead, shall | 16 |
display
lighted lights and
illuminating devices as required by | 17 |
sections
4513.04 to 4513.37
of the Revised Code, for different | 18 |
classes of
vehicles; except
that every; | 19 |
| (3) At any time when the windshield wipers of the vehicle are | 20 |
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in use because of precipitation on the windshield. | 21 |
| Every motorized bicycle shall display at
such times lighted | 22 |
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lights meeting the rules adopted by the
director of public safety | 23 |
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under section 4511.521 of the Revised
Code. No motor vehicle, | 24 |
during such timesany time specified in this section, shall be | 25 |
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operated upon
a street or highway
within this state using only | 26 |
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parking lights as
illumination. | 27 |
| Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to
the | 28 |
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distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render
objects | 29 |
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visible, or within which such lamps or devices shall be
visible, | 30 |
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such distance shall be measured upon a straight level
unlighted | 31 |
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highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a
different | 32 |
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condition is expressly stated. | 33 |
| Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to
the | 34 |
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mounted height of lights or devices, it shall mean from the
center | 35 |
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of such light or device to the level ground upon which the
vehicle | 36 |
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stands. | 37 |
| (B) Whoever violates this section shall be punished as | 38 |
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provided
in section
4513.99 of the Revised Code. | 39 |
| Section 2. That existing section 4513.03 of the Revised Code | 40 |
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is hereby repealed. | 41 |
