347.24 Lamps and reflectors on nonmotor vehicles and equipment. - Wisconsin Statutes

347.24

347.24 Lamps and reflectors on nonmotor vehicles and equipment.

347.24(1)

(1)

347.24(1)(a)

(a) Except as provided under pars. (b) and (c), no person may operate on a highway during hours of darkness any implement of husbandry or any other vehicle not specifically required by law to be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices unless such implement or vehicle is equipped with at least 2 lighted lamps or lanterns exhibiting a white light visible from a distance of 500 feet ahead and 2 lighted lamps or lanterns exhibiting a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear or, as an alternative to the red lamps or lanterns, 2 red reflectors mounted as specified in s. 347.18 and meeting the visibility requirements of s. 347.19 may be displayed on the rear of such vehicle or implement of husbandry.

347.24(1)(am)

(am) No person may operate on a highway during hours of darkness any implement of husbandry that extends 4 feet or more to the left of the center line of its towing vehicle unless the implement is equipped with an amber reflector meeting the visibility requirements of s. 347.19 and mounted on the left side, facing forward, so as to mark the extreme width of the implement to drivers of oncoming vehicles.

347.24(1)(b)

(b) Any implement of husbandry or any other vehicle not specifically required by law to be equipped with lamps or other lighting device and which was manufactured on or before January 1, 1984, shall comply with the lamp requirements of s. 347.24 (1), 1981 stats.

347.24(1)(c)

(c) An implement of husbandry which is an all-terrain vehicle need only comply with the lamp requirements established under s. 23.33 (6).

347.24(2)

(2) No person may operate on a highway during hours of darkness a vehicle drawn by an animal unless the vehicle is equipped with at least one lighted lamp or lantern exhibiting a white light visible from a distance of 500 feet ahead and 2 lighted lamps or lanterns exhibiting red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear and mounted in such a manner as to indicate the extreme width of the vehicle.

347.24 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 418; 1983 a. 124; 1985 a. 29; 1993 a. 455; 2001 a. 104.