49-901. DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT AND DIRECTOR OF IDAHO STATE POLICE. (1) The director shall adopt standards and specifications applicable to head lamps, clearance lamps, identification and other lamps on snow removal equipment when operated on the highways in lieu of the lamps otherwise required on vehicles by this title. Standards and specifications may permit the […]
49-902. SCOPE AND EFFECT. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, or move, or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in an unsafe condition as to endanger any person, or which does not contain […]
49-903. WHEN LIGHTED LAMPS ARE REQUIRED. Every vehicle upon a highway at any time from sunset to sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred (500) feet ahead shall display lighted lamps and illuminating devices […]
49-904. VISIBILITY DISTANCE AND MOUNTED HEIGHT OF LAMPS. (1) Whenever a requirement is stated as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible, or within which lamps or devices shall be visible, those provisions shall apply during the times stated in section 49-903, Idaho Code, in respect to a vehicle […]
49-905. HEAD LAMPS ON MOTOR VEHICLES. (1) Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle shall be equipped with at least two (2) head lamps with at least one (1) on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. The head lamps shall comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in […]
49-906. TAIL LAMPS. (1) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, and any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles, shall be equipped with at least one (1) tail lamp mounted on the rear, which when lighted as required, shall emit a red light plainly visible from […]
49-907. MOTOR VEHICLES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH REFLECTORS. (1) Every motor vehicle sold and operated upon a highway, other than a truck tractor, shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the tail lamps or separately, two (2) red reflectors. Every motorcycle and every motor-driven cycle shall carry at least one (1) reflector […]
49-908. STOP LAMPS AND TURN SIGNALS REQUIRED ON MOTOR VEHICLES. (1) After December 31, 1986, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any motor vehicle, including any motorcycle or motor-driven cycle, in this state or for any person to drive a vehicle on the highways unless it is equipped with at least one […]
49-909. ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT REQUIRED ON CERTAIN VEHICLES. In addition to other equipment required in this chapter, the following vehicles shall be equipped as follows: (1) On every bus or truck, whatever its size, there shall be: (a) On each side, one (1) reflector, at or near the rear; and (b) On the rear, two (2) […]
49-910. COLOR OF CLEARANCE LAMPS, SIDE MARKER LAMPS, AND REFLECTORS. (1) Front clearance lamps and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color. (2) Rear clearance lamps and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on […]
49-910A. COLOR OF LAMPS AND GLOBES LIMITED TO CERTAIN VEHICLE CLASSES. For the purposes of this chapter lighting devices utilizing various colors of lighted globes approved by the director of the Idaho state police for use on vehicles shall be restricted to the following class of vehicles: (1) Police vehicles. Only police vehicles shall display […]
49-911. VISIBILITY OF REFLECTORS, CLEARANCE LAMPS, AND MARKER LAMPS. (1) Every reflector upon any vehicle referred to in section 49-909, Idaho Code, shall be of a size and characteristic and maintained to be readily visible at nighttime from all distances within six hundred (600) feet to one hundred (100) feet from the vehicle when directly […]
49-912. OBSTRUCTED LIGHTS NOT REQUIRED. Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp, except tail lamps, need not be lighted which, by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination, would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination, but this shall not […]
49-913. LAMP OR FLAG ON PROJECTING LOAD. Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear four (4) feet or more beyond the bed or body of the vehicle, there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of the load, at the times specified in section 49-903, Idaho Code, a red light or […]
49-914. LAMPS ON PARKED VEHICLES. (1) Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon a highway at the times specified in section 49-903, Idaho Code, and in the event there is sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of five hundred (500) feet upon the highway, no lights need be displayed upon […]
49-915. SCHOOL BUSES — VISUAL SIGNAL. (1) Every school bus shall, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by this title, be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall display to the front two (2) alternately flashing red lights located at the same […]
49-916. LAMPS ON FARM TRACTORS, FARM EQUIPMENT AND IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. (1) Every farm tractor and every self-propelled farm equipment unit or implement of husbandry not equipped with an electric lighting system shall at all times specified in section 49-903, Idaho Code, be equipped with at least one (1) lamp displaying a white light visible […]
49-917. LAMPS ON OTHER VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT. Every vehicle, including animal-drawn vehicles and other vehicles not specifically required by the provisions of this chapter to be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices, shall at all times specified in section 49-903, Idaho Code, be equipped with at least one (1) lamp displaying a white light […]
49-918. SPOT LAMPS AND AUXILIARY LAMPS. (1) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than two (2) spot lamps, and each lighted spot lamp shall be so aimed and used upon approaching another vehicle that no part of the high-intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation […]
49-919. SIGNAL LAMPS AND SIGNAL DEVICES. (1) Any motor vehicle may be equipped and when required under this chapter shall be equipped with stop lamps on the rear of the vehicle which shall display a red or amber light, or any shade of color between red and amber, visible from a distance of not less […]
