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2023 SESSION

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SB 938 Animal-drawn vehicles; lights on other vehicles, reflectors.

Introduced by: Frank M. Ruff, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Lights on other vehicles;  animal-drawn vehicles. Clarifies that the existing requirements for vehicles to display white lights in the front and red lights in the rear or approved reflectors applies to animal-drawn vehicles. The bill also provides that such lights may be battery-operated.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Lights on other vehicles; reflectors; animal-drawn vehicles. Allows animal-drawn vehicles operating on highways to be equipped with battery-operated red rear lights instead of white lights in the front and red lights in the rear as are required generally for other vehicles. The bill also provides that such animal-drawn vehicles may, instead of or in addition to the front and rear lights generally required for other vehicles or such battery-operated red rear lights, affix reflectors to the front and rear of the vehicles.