347.18 Mounting of clearance lamps and reflectors.

347.18

347.18 Mounting of clearance lamps and reflectors.

347.18(1)

(1) Whenever s. 347.16 requires any reflector to be displayed upon a vehicle, each such reflector shall be mounted at a height not less than 16 inches nor more than 60 inches above the ground on which the vehicle stands. On vehicles which are more than 80 inches wide, the front and rear reflectors shall be mounted so as to indicate as nearly as possible the extreme width of the vehicle. Any required red reflector on the rear of a vehicle may be incorporated with the tail lamp but such reflector shall meet all the other reflector requirements of this chapter.

347.18(2)

(2) Whenever this chapter requires a vehicle to be equipped with clearance lamps, such lamps shall be mounted in such a manner as to indicate the extreme width of the vehicle and as near to the top thereof as practicable except that when rear identification lamps are mounted at the extreme height of the vehicle, rear clearance lamps may be mounted at optional heights.

347.18 - ANNOT.

History: 1975 c. 121.

347.18 - ANNOT.

Cross Reference: See also ss. Trans 305.14 and 305.55, Wis. adm. code.