Every person operating or riding as a passenger on a motorcycle
or motor tricycle upon the streets or highways of the City shall wear
protective headgear at all times the vehicle is in motion. The protective
headgear shall meet reasonable standards and specifications established
by the Director of Revenue.
Lighted lamps, as defined and required in Chapter 307, RSMo.,
are required to be illuminated when operating a motor vehicle within
the City limits during the time period from a half hour after sunset
to a half hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is
not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles
on the roadways at a distance of 500 feet ahead. Lighted lamps shall
also be required any time the weather conditions require usage of
the motor vehicle's windshield wipers to operate the vehicle in a
careful and prudent manner as defined in § 304.012, RSMo.
The provisions of this section shall be interpreted to require lighted
lamps during periods of fog even if usage of the windshield wipers
in not necessary to operate the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner.
Each person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty
of an ordinance violation for which a fine not to exceed $10 may be
imposed. All other provisions of law and court rules to the contrary
notwithstanding, no court costs shall be imposed on any person due
to a violation of this section.
All motor vehicles, and every trailer, operating upon the streets
and highways of this City and carrying goods or materials or farm
products which may reasonably be expected to become dislodged and
fall from the motor vehicle or trailer as a result of wind pressure
or air pressure and/or by the movement shall have a protective cover
or be sufficiently secured so that no portion of such goods or materials
or farm products can become dislodged and fall from the vehicle or
trailer while being transported or carried.
Trucks, semitrailers, and trailers, except utility trailers,
without rear fenders, attached to a commercial motor vehicle registered
for over 24,000 pounds shall be equipped with mud flaps for the rear
wheels when operated on the public highways of this City. If mud flaps
are used, they shall be wide enough to cover the full tread width
of the tire or tires being protected; shall be so installed that they
extend from the underside of the vehicle body in a vertical plane
behind the rear wheels to within eight inches of the ground; and shall
be constructed of a rigid material or a flexible material which is
of a sufficiently rigid character to provide adequate protection when
the vehicle is in motion. No provisions of this section shall apply
to a motor vehicle in transit and in process of delivery equipped
with temporary mud flaps, to farm implements, or to any vehicle which
is not required to be registered.
Every operator of a motor vehicle operated upon the streets
or highways of the City shall be required to equip the vehicle with
headlamps as defined and required under Chapter 307, RSMo.
Every operator of a motor vehicle operated upon the streets
or highways of the City shall be required to equip the vehicle with
taillamps, registration marker lamps, and reflectors as defined and
required under § 307.075, RSMo.
Every operator of a motor vehicle operated upon the streets
or highways of the City shall be required to equip the vehicle in
accordance with §§ 307.170 and 307.173, RSMo.