307.040. When lights required — violation, penalty. — 1. No person shall drive, move, park or be in custody of any vehicle or combination of vehicles on any street or highway during the times when lighted lamps are required unless such vehicle or combination of vehicles displays lighted lamps and illuminating devices as hereinafter in this chapter required. No person shall use on any vehicle any approved electric lamp or similar device unless the light source of such lamp or device complies with the conditions of approval as to focus and rated candlepower.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 307.120, or any other provision of law, violation of this section shall be deemed an infraction and any person who violates this section as it relates to violations of the usage of lighted lamps required due to weather conditions or fog shall only be fined ten dollars and no court costs shall be assessed.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
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1 in the last 5 years), 1974–2025 · leading case:
Vanasse v. Plautz, 538 S.W.2d 928 (Mo. Ct. App. 1976).
Vanasse v. Plautz, 538 S.W.2d 928 (Mo. Ct. App. 1976).
· cites it 16× “020, RSMo 1969, the obtaining statutory definition of “vehicle” in force at the time of the collision in question with respect to Sections 307.040 and 307.115, RSMo 1969, 1 and respondent’s failure to have “lighted lamps” thereon as required by Sections 307.”
Penn v. Columbia Asphalt Co., 513 S.W.2d 679 (Mo. Ct. App. 1974).
· cites it 2× “§ 307.040 prohibits driving, moving or parking an unlighted vehicle on a highway during times when lighted lamps are required by the provisions of the chapter.”
State v. Jackson, 436 S.W.3d 576 (Mo. Ct. App. 2013).
· cites it 2× “Section 307.040 provides: 1. No person shall drive, move, park or be in custody of any vehicle or combination of vehicles on any street or highway during the times when lighted lamps are required unless such vehicle or combination of vehicles displays lighted lamps and…”
State v. McIntosh, 159 S.W.3d 505 (Mo. Ct. App. 2005).
“Sections 307.040 and 307.020(9), RSMo 2000 provide that vehicles must display “lighted lamps” “at any time from a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise[.”
State v. Rubottom, 560 S.W.3d 917 (Mo. Ct. App. 2018).
· cites it 2× “015, and one count of failure to display headlights in violation of Section 307.040. On the DWI charge, the trial court sentenced Defendant to four years of imprisonment, suspended execution of the sentence, and placed Defendant on probation for five years; it imposed two $100…”
Wood v. Wooten (E.D. Mo. 2019).
· cites it 2× “See Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 307.040 , 307.105. Wooten was aware that Wood had been driving with one headlight because Haynes conveyed this information to him.”
Cella v. Evangelical Deaconess Soc'y of St. Louis, 581 S.W.2d 881 (Mo. Ct. App. 1979).
“1976) (affirming a verdict for plaintiff in a court tried personal injury suit despite plaintiff's contributory negligence in failing to properly light her motorized wheel chair pursuant to Sections 307.040 and 307.115, RSMo. 1969, because the trial court could reasonably…”
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