Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder adjacent to the
roadway, outside of a business district whether attended or unattended during the times
mentioned in section 321.384, such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps
which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from a distance
of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle and a red light visible from a distance of
five hundred feet to the rear, except that local authorities may provide by ordinance or
resolution that no lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when stopped or parked in
accordance with local parking regulations upon a highway where there is sufficient light to
reveal any person or object within a distance of five hundred feet upon such highway. Any
lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, §5054; C39, §5034.04; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.395]
98 Acts, ch 1178, §4
Referred to in §321.1, 321.396, 456A.12, 805.8A(6)(z)
For applicable scheduled fine, see §805.8A, subsection 6
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in
7
cases, 1950–1995 · leading case:
Kester v. Bruns, 326 N.W.2d 279 (Iowa 1982).
Kester v. Bruns, 326 N.W.2d 279 (Iowa 1982).
· cites it 4× “Plaintiffs also complain that the court erred in instructing about the duty of a person in control of a motor vehicle stopped on a roadway to give notice of the vehicle.”
Collister v. City of Council Bluffs, 534 N.W.2d 453 (Iowa 1995).
· cites it 5× “As the Collis-ters point out, Iowa Code section 321.395 requires all vehicles parked on a road outside of a business district to be equipped with specified parking lights visible from 500 feet to the front and 500 feet to the rear.”
Henneman v. McCalla, 148 N.W.2d 447 (Iowa 1967).
· cites it 2× “59 pertaining to lamps on parked cars (Code section 321.395 as amended). By instruction 16, employing the form set forth-in Uniform Jury Instruction 4.”
Bunch v. Hanson, 104 N.W.2d 581 (Iowa 1960).
· cites it 4× “It provides that whenever a truck is stopped upon or immediately adjacent to the traveled portion of a highway outside a business or residence district at night the driver, in addition to the requirements of section 321.395 as to lights upon the vehicle, shall cause a lighted…”
Mundy v. Olds, 120 N.W.2d 469 (Iowa 1963).
· cites it 2× “Section 321.395, Code of Iowa. Failure to comply with this provision of the law constitutes negligence.”
Sisson v. Weathermon, 108 N.W.2d 585 (Iowa 1961).
· cites it 2× “It is a statutory provision under section 321.395. The instruction given is the usual and customary instruction pertaining to that question.”
Tuhn v. Clark, 41 N.W.2d 13 (Iowa 1950).
· cites it 2× “Section 321.395, Code of Iowa, 1946, requires that a parked or stopped automobile exhibit a rear red light.”
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