41-6a-1609.  Lamps and reflectors on vehicles not otherwise specified — Slow-moving vehicle identification emblems on animal-drawn vehicles.

(1)  An animal-drawn vehicle, a vehicle under Section 41-6a-1604, and a vehicle not specifically required by the provisions of other sections in this chapter to be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices, shall be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices if operated on a highway under the conditions specified under Subsection 41-6a-1603(1)(a) as follows:

Terms Used In Utah Code 41-6a-1609

  • Highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of any nature when any part of it is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for vehicular travel. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
  • Vehicle: means a device in, on, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except a mobile carrier, as defined in Section 41-6a-1120, or a device used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks. See Utah Code 41-6a-102
(a)  at least one lamp displaying a white light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the front of the vehicle; and

(b) 

(i)  two lamps displaying red light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear of the vehicle; or

(ii)  one lamp displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear and two red reflectors visible from all distances of 600 to 100 feet to the rear when illuminated by the lawful lower beams of head lamps.

(2)  An animal-drawn vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a slow-moving vehicle identification emblem as provided under Section 41-6a-1608.

(3)  A violation of this section is an infraction.

Amended by Chapter 412, 2015 General Session