Title XIX, MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION

306.530. Registration of outboard motors. — 1. The owner of an outboard motor kept within this state shall cause it to be registered in the office of the director of revenue who shall issue a certificate of title for the same. 2. The owner of any outboard motor acquired or brough…

306.532. Certificate of title to designate year of manufacture — Effective August 28, 2012, the certificate of title for a new outboard motor shall designate the year the outboard motor was manufactured as the "Year Manufactured" and shall further designate the year the dealer re…

306.535. Applications, contents, fee — not made within certain period, delinquency fee. — 1. Applications shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished to the applicant, upon demand, by the director of revenue. 2. The application shall contain a brief description of the outboar…

306.540. Registration by director of revenue, when. — Upon receipt of an application for registration of an outboard motor the director of revenue shall file the application in his office and register the described outboard motor, with the name, residence and business address of …

306.545. Registration number — placement. — 1. Upon the payment of the registration fee and the approval of the application, the director of revenue shall assign a registration number to the described outboard motor by which it may be identified during the current registration pe…

306.550. Certificate forms — duties of seller and purchaser — temporary registration number, issuance, contents. — 1. When the certificate forms are printed, the director of revenue shall cause to be printed on the reverse side, a form for transfer of title to be used by the owne…

306.555. Inspection of outboard motors. — For the purposes of reasonable and proper administration and enforcement of the provisions of sections 306.530 to 306.575 all outboard motors within this state shall be subject to inspection by peace officers. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1191 …

306.560. Outboard motor registration not required for manufacturers, visitors in state, and motors used solely for racing. — The provisions of sections 306.530 to 306.575 requiring registration of outboard motors in the office of the director of revenue of this state shall not ap…

306.565. Fees — disposition. — All registration fees and other fees and money received by the director of revenue, pursuant to this law for registration of outboard motors, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 119…

306.570. Destruction of records. — The director of revenue is authorized, at his discretion, to destroy by burning with fire, any letters, correspondence, papers and documents, remaining in the files, pertaining to the registration of outboard motors, after four years from their …

306.575. Penalty for violation. — Any person, firm, partner, organization, association or corporation, or any agent or officer thereof, required by sections 306.530 to 306.575 to register an outboard motor and to pay the registration fee, who fails to do so in the time and manner…

306.900. Direct molding process — use of to duplicate hulls prohibited, when — damages and injunctive relief, when. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Direct molding process", any direct molding process in which the original manufactured vessel hull or c…

306.903. Abandonment of boat dock, penalty — retrieval and disposal — identifying information on dock required, when, penalty. — 1. Any person who abandons a boat dock and permits it to float freely without being moored upon lakes having at least nine hundred fifty miles of aggre…

306.910. Recreational water use — definitions — brochure, distribution, limitation on cost of. — 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Outfitter", any individual, group, corporation, or other business entity which is a registered member of the Miss…

307.005. Light-emitting diodes deemed operating properly, when. — For purposes of this chapter, a lamp, light, or other piece of lighting equipment consisting of multiple light-emitting diodes shall be deemed to be operating properly so long as not less than seventy-five percent …

307.010. Loads which might become dislodged to be secured — cotton trailers — failure, penalty. — 1. All motor vehicles, and every trailer and semitrailer operating upon the public highways of this state and carrying goods or material or farm products which may reasonably be expe…

307.015. Mud flaps required, certain motor vehicles — violation, penalty. — 1. Trucks, semitrailers, and trailers, except utility trailers, without rear fenders, attached to a commercial motor vehicle registered for over twenty-four thousand pounds shall be equipped with mud flap…

307.018. Traffic citation, infraction, no warrant of arrest, when — alternate notice, procedure. — 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall issue a warrant of arrest for a person's failure to respond, pay the fine assessed, or appear in court with respect to …

307.020. Definitions. — As used in sections 307.020 to 307.120, unless the context requires another or different construction: (1) "Approved" means approved by the director of revenue and when applied to lamps and other illuminating devices means that such lamps and devices must …

307.025. Exemptions. — The subsequent provisions of this chapter with respect to equipment and lights on vehicles shall not apply to agricultural machinery and implements, road machinery, road rollers, traction engines, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles as defined in section …

307.030. Approval of lighting equipment — rules and regulations — fee — revocation or suspension of certificate, rulemaking procedure. — 1. The director of the department of public safety is hereby given authority to pass upon the lighting equipment of any vehicle, motor vehicle,…

307.035. Director's decisions final, when — appeal to board — hearing and decisions. — 1. The decisions of the director of the department of public safety under the provisions of sections 307.020 to 307.120, shall be final unless appealed as herein provided and shall be sent by r…

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 …

307.045. Headlamp on motor vehicles — violations, penalty. — 1. Except as in this chapter provided, every motor vehicle other than a motor-drawn vehicle and other than a motorcycle shall be equipped with at least two approved headlamps mounted at the same level with at least one …

307.050. Headlamps — permissible substitutes, speed limit. — Any motor vehicle need not be equipped with approved headlamps provided that every such vehicle during the times when lighted lamps are required is equipped with two lighted lamps on the front thereof displaying white o…

307.055. Single-beam headlamps — intensity, adjustment — violation, penalty. — 1. Approved single-beam headlamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead project higher than…

307.060. Multiple-beam headlamps — arrangement — violation, penalty. — 1. Except as hereinafter provided, the headlamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or the auxiliary passing lamp or combination thereof on motor vehicles other than motorcycles or motor driven cycles shall be so a…

307.065. New vehicles shall have beam indicator — violation, penalty. — 1. Every new motor vehicle registered in this state after January 1, 1942, which has multiple-beam road lighting equipment shall be equipped with a beam indicator, which shall be lighted whenever the uppermos…

307.070. Dimming of lights, when — violation, penalty. — 1. Every person driving a motor vehicle equipped with multiple-beam road lighting equipment, during the times when lighted lamps are required, shall use a distribution of light, or composite beam, directed high enough and o…

307.075. Taillamps, reflectors — violations, penalty. — 1. Every motor vehicle and every motor-drawn vehicle shall be equipped with at least two rear lamps, not less than fifteen inches or more than seventy-two inches above the ground upon which the vehicle stands, which when lig…

307.080. Auxiliary lamps — number — location — violation, penalty. — 1. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed three auxiliary lamps mounted on the front at a height not less than twelve inches nor more than forty-two inches above the level surface upon which the ve…

307.085. Cowl, fender, running board and backup lamps — violation, penalty. — 1. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than two side cowl or fender lamps which shall emit a white or yellow light without glare. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than one run…

307.090. Spotlamps — restrictions, penalty. — 1. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one spotlamp but every lighted spotlamp shall be so aimed and used so as not to be dazzling or glaring to any person. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 307.120, violat…

307.095. Colors of various lamps — restriction of red lights, penalty. — 1. Headlamps, when lighted, shall exhibit lights substantially white in color; auxiliary lamps, cowllamps and spotlamps, when lighted, shall exhibit lights substantially white, yellow or amber in color. No p…

307.100. Limitations on lamps other than headlamps — flashing signals prohibited except on specified vehicles — penalty. — 1. Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than headlamps, spotlamps, front direction signals or auxiliary lamps which projects a …

307.105. Limitation on total of lamps lighted at one time — violation, penalty. — 1. At the times when lighted lamps are required, at least two lighted lamps shall be displayed, one on each side of the front of every motor vehicle except a motorcycle and except a motor-drawn vehi…

307.110. Parked vehicles — how lighted — exception — violation, penalty. — 1. Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon a street or highway during the hours between a half hour after sunset and a half hour before sunrise and in the event there is sufficient light to reveal any p…

307.115. Other vehicles — how lighted — violation, penalty. — 1. All vehicles, including agricultural machinery or implements, road machinery, road rollers, traction engines and farm tractors not in this chapter specifically required to be equipped with lamps, shall be equipped d…

307.120. Penalty for violations. — Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 307.020 to 307.120 shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The term "person" as used in sections 307.020 to 307.120 shall mean and include any individual, associat…

307.122. Electronic message devices, prohibited on vehicle, exceptions — penalty. — No motor vehicle or trailer shall be operated on a public highway of this state while equipped with any device which emits an electronic message directed to the front, side or rear of the exterior…

307.125. Animal-driven vehicles, lighting requirements — penalty — rulemaking authority. — 1. Any person who shall place or drive or cause to be placed or driven upon or along any state or supplementary state highway of this state any animal-driven vehicle whatsoever, whether in …

307.127. Slow-moving equipment, emblem required on, when — emblem described — violation, penalty — alternative display, reflective material. — 1. No person shall operate on any public highway of this state any slow-moving vehicle or equipment after sunset to one-half hour before …

307.128. Motorcycle headlamp modulation permitted, when — labeling requirements — auxiliary lighting. — 1. A headlamp on a motorcycle may be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity provided that: (1) The rate of m…

307.130. Safety glass defined. — The term "safety glass", as used in sections 307.130 to 307.160, shall be construed as meaning glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to pers…

307.135. Director not to license vehicle without safety glass. — It shall be the duty of the director of revenue to refuse to issue a license for any motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1936, unless such motor vehicle is equipped as provided in sections 307.1…

307.140. Safety glass on vehicles for hire and school buses. — It shall be unlawful after January 1, 1936, to operate on any public highway or street, in this state, a motor vehicle registered in the state of Missouri, manufactured or assembled after said date, designed or used f…