Missouri vehicle lighting laws

Below are all relevant excerpts from Missouri Vehicle Code that limit, restrict or allow certain aftermarket lights to be installed on vehicles.

Section 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 lighted will exhibit a red light plainly visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear. Either such rear lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration marker and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear.

Section 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 person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment, except a school bus when used for school purposes or an emergency vehicle upon any street or highway with any lamp or device thereon displaying a red light visible from directly in front thereof.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 307.120, violation of this section is an infraction.

Section 307.100 – Limitations on lamps other than headlamps–flashing signals prohibited except on specified vehicles–penalty.

[…] flashing warning signals […] are prohibited on other motor vehicles, motorcycles and motor-drawn vehicles except as a means for indicating a right or left turn.

Penalties

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.