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WI Stat § 347.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.14 - Stop lamps.

347.14  Stop lamps. (1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, lightweight utility vehicle as defined in s. 346.94 (21) (a) 2., mobile home, or trailer or semitrailer upon a highway unless such motor vehicle, lightweight utility vehicle, mobile home, or trailer or semitrailer is equipped with at least one stop lamp mounted on the rear and meeting the specifications set forth in this section. The stop lamp on a mobile home or trailer or semitrailer shall be controlled and operated from the driver's seat of the propelling vehicle. A stop lamp may be incorporated with a tail lamp. No vehicle originally equipped at the time of manufacture and sale with 2 stop lamps shall be operated upon a highway unless both such lamps are in good working order. (2) A stop lamp shall be so constructed as to be actuated upon application of the service or foot brake or separate trailer brake and shall emit a red or amber light plainly visible and understandable from all distances up to 300 feet to the rear during normal sunlight when viewed from the driver's seat of the vehicle following.History:  2009 a. 157.
WI Stat § 347.145 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.145 - Deceleration warning lights for motorcycles, motor bicycles, mopeds or motor buses.

347.145  Deceleration warning lights for motorcycles, motor bicycles, mopeds or motor buses. (1) A motorcycle, motor bicycle or moped may be equipped with and use a system in which an amber light which pulses in a controlled fashion at a rate which varies exponentially with deceleration is center mounted on the rear of the vehicle. (2) A motor bus may be equipped with amber lights that shine with a steady beam or that pulse during deceleration, braking, or standing and idling. The lights shall be mounted symmetrically with respect to the vertical center line of the motor bus in a horizontal alignment on the rear of the motor bus. The lights may be mounted no higher than the lower edge of the rear window, or no higher than 72 inches if the motor bus does not have a rear window.History:  1981 c. 52; 1983 a. 243; 1987 a. 235; 2001 a. 104.
WI Stat § 347.16 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.16 - Clearance lamps and reflectors.

347.16  Clearance lamps and reflectors. (1) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any vehicle, except automobiles, having a width at any part in excess of 80 inches unless such vehicle is equipped with:(a) Two clearance lamps mounted on the front of the vehicle so as to be visible from the front; and(b) Two clearance lamps mounted on the rear of the vehicle so as to be visible from the rear; and(c) Two reflectors mounted on the rear of the vehicle in such a manner as to indicate as nearly as possible the extreme width of the vehicle. (2) No person shall operate any of the following vehicles on a highway during hours of darkness unless such vehicles are equipped as indicated:(a) Every truck tractor shall carry on the front 2 clearance lamps, one at each side.(b) Every trailer or semitrailer shall carry on the rear 2 reflectors, one on each side. (3) Reflectorized material extending across the full width of the vehicle and otherwise meeting the mounting and visibility specifications for reflectors may be used in lieu of the reflectors required by this section.
WI Stat § 347.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.17 - Color of clearance and marker lamps and reflectors.

347.17  Color of clearance and marker lamps and reflectors. Whenever a vehicle is equipped with clearance lamps, sidemarker lamps or reflectors: (1) Those clearance and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of the vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color; (2) Those clearance lamps and marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of the vehicle, or on both, shall display or reflect a red color.
WI Stat § 347.18 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.18 - Mounting of clearance lamps and reflectors.

347.18  Mounting of clearance lamps and reflectors. (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. (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.History:  1975 c. 121.
WI Stat § 347.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.19 - Visibility of clearance lamps and reflectors.

347.19  Visibility of clearance lamps and reflectors. (1) Every reflector required by s. 347.16 to be displayed upon a vehicle shall be of such size and characteristics and so maintained as to be readily visible during the hours of darkness from all distances within 500 feet to 50 feet from the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps. (2) Front and rear clearance lamps when lighted shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions during hours of darkness at a distance of 500 feet from the front and rear, respectively, of the vehicle.
WI Stat § 347.20 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.20 - Lamp or flag on projecting load or fixture.

347.20  Lamp or flag on projecting load or fixture. (1) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any vehicle with a load or fixture thereon extending more than 4 feet beyond the rear of the bed or body thereof unless there is displayed at the extreme rear end of the load or fixture a red light or lantern plainly visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the sides and rear. The red light or lantern shall be in addition to any tail lamp or clearance lamp which the vehicle is required to carry. (2) No person shall operate on a highway, at times other than hours of darkness, any vehicle with a load or fixture thereon extending more than 4 feet beyond the rear of the bed or body thereof unless there is displayed at the extreme rear end of such load or fixture a red flag or cloth not less than 12 inches square and so hung that the entire area is visible to the operator of a vehicle approaching from the rear. (3) This section does not apply to vehicles loaded with loose hay or straw.History:  1981 c. 176.
WI Stat § 347.21 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.21 - Lamps and flags on trains of agricultural vehicles.

347.21  Lamps and flags on trains of agricultural vehicles. (1) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any train of vehicles authorized by s. 348.08 (1) (d) unless there is mounted on each side of every vehicle in such train, including farm tractors and implements of husbandry, at least one lamp emitting a red or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the side of the vehicle on which mounted or, in lieu thereof, at least one red or amber reflector visible from all distances within 500 feet to 50 feet of the side of the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps. (1m) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any train of vehicles authorized by s. 348.08 (1) (b) unless there is mounted on each side of every vehicle in such train at least one lamp emitting a red or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the side of the vehicle on which mounted or, in lieu thereof, at least one red or amber reflector visible from all distances within 500 feet to 50 feet of the side of the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps.History:  1979 c. 143, 355; 1981 c. 276; 1981 c. 391 s. 210; 1987 a. 164; 2013 a. 377; 2015 a. 232.
WI Stat § 347.22 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.22 - Lamps on farm tractors, self-propelled implements of husbandry, and lightweight utility vehicles.

347.22  Lamps on farm tractors, self-propelled implements of husbandry, and lightweight utility vehicles. (1) No person shall operate or park a farm tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry, or lightweight utility vehicle, as defined in s. 346.94 (21) (a) 2., upon a highway during hours of darkness unless such tractor, implement of husbandry, or lightweight utility vehicle carries the lighted headlamps and tail lamps which would be required of other motor vehicles under similar circumstances. (2) Except as provided in s. 347.25 (2g), no person shall operate or park a farm tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry, or lightweight utility vehicle, as defined in s. 346.94 (21) (a) 2., upon a highway during hours of darkness with any lamp thereon showing any light to the rear other than red or amber in color.History:  2009 a. 157; 2013 a. 377; 2015 a. 232.
WI Stat § 347.23 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.23 - Lamps on highway maintenance equipment.

347.23  Lamps on highway maintenance equipment. (1) No person shall operate upon a highway during hours of darkness any road machinery or motor vehicle used in highway construction or maintenance unless such vehicle or road machinery is equipped either as prescribed by par. (a) or (b):(a) A red light visible from a distance of 500 feet shall be displayed on each side of the front and on each side of the rear to give adequate warning of the presence of such vehicle or machinery and to show safe clearance for passing or overtaking vehicles; or(b) In lieu of the red lights prescribed by par. (a), 2 amber floodlamps may be used, one to be mounted on each side of the vehicle or machinery so as to illuminate its sides and its attachments, if any, to show safe clearance for passing or overtaking vehicles. Such floodlamps shall display an amber light of sufficient illuminating power to indicate safe clearance from a distance of 200 feet to the front and rear of such vehicle or machinery. (2) The lights specified in sub. (1) need not be displayed upon motor vehicles used in highway construction or maintenance work when such vehicles are traveling along the highway at their normal operating speed in the ordinary course of traffic. (4) No person shall operate upon the left-hand side of a highway during hours of darkness any road machinery or motor vehicle used in highway construction or maintenance, including snow and ice control, unless such vehicle or machinery is equipped with an auxiliary lamp or lamps projecting a flashing amber light visible from all directions for a 360-degree lens (beehive type lamp) or revolving type lamp and visible front and rear for reflectorized stationary directional type lamps. For flashing type lamps the number of flashes per minute shall be between 60 and 90. For revolving type lamps the revolutions per minute shall be between 45 and 90. The lenses of such auxiliary lamps shall not be less than 6 inches in diameter for the reflectorized stationary directional type lamp; 3-3/4 inches minimum diameter and 5-inch minimum height for the 360-degree lens (beehive type lamp); and 3-3/4 inches minimum width and 4-5/8 inches minimum height for the revolving type lamp. The lamps shall be equipped with bulbs of 50 candlepower minimum. The lamps shall be mounted approximately midway between the transverse extremities of the vehicle or machinery and at the highest practicable point.
WI Stat § 347.27 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.27 - When lighted lamps required on parked vehicles.

347.27  When lighted lamps required on parked vehicles. (1) No person shall park or leave a vehicle standing, whether attended or unattended, upon a roadway or the shoulder immediately adjacent thereto during hours of darkness unless:(a) Such vehicle is parked or standing where there is sufficient artificial light to render it visible from a distance of 500 feet or is lawfully parked within the corporate limits of a city or village and in either case is equipped with at least one red reflector mounted on the rear thereof as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is closest to passing traffic and otherwise meeting the mounting and visibility requirements specified in ss. 347.18 and 347.19; or(b) Such vehicle displays one or more lighted lamps meeting the following requirements:1. At least one lamp shall display a white or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front of the vehicle, and the same lamp or at least one other lamp shall display a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear of the vehicle.2. The location of such lamp or lamps shall always be such that at least one lamp or combination of lamps meeting the requirements of this section is installed as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is closest to passing traffic.3. If the vehicle is equipped with 2 parking lamps and 2 tail lamps, both parking lamps and both tail lamps shall be lighted. (2) Any lighted headlamps on a vehicle parked on a highway shall be depressed or dimmed. (3) In this section, “vehicle" includes farm tractors, implements of husbandry, animal-drawn vehicles, lightweight utility vehicles as defined in s. 346.94 (21) (a) 2., and road machinery. History:  2009 a. 157; 2015 a. 232.
WI Stat § 347.28 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.28 - Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices.

347.28  Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices. (1) No person shall operate a motor truck or motor bus more than 80 inches in width or a truck tractor or road tractor on any highway outside the corporate limits of a city or village during hours of darkness unless such vehicle carries in a place readily accessible to the driver the following warning devices:(a) At least 3 pot torches or 3 red electric lanterns or 3 red emergency reflectors, each of which shall be capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of at least 600 feet under normal atmospheric conditions during hours of darkness. If pot torches are carried in lieu of red electric lanterns, at least 3 red-burning fusees shall be carried in addition to such pot torches; and(b) At least 2 red-cloth flags, not less than 12 inches square, with standards to support such flags. (2) No person shall operate upon a highway outside the corporate limits of a city or village during hours of darkness any motor vehicle used for the transportation of explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of flammable liquids or compressed gases unless there is carried in such vehicle 3 red electric lanterns or 3 red emergency reflectors meeting the requirements of sub. (1). No pot torch or fusee or signal produced by flame shall be carried in any such vehicle. Such red emergency reflectors shall comply with the specifications for such reflectors as set forth in interstate commerce commission motor carrier safety regulations.
WI Stat § 347.30 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.30 - Penalty for violating lighting equipment requirements.

347.30  Penalty for violating lighting equipment requirements. (1) Any person violating s. 347.06 or 347.13 (2), (3) or (4) may be required to forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $20 for the first offense and not less than $25 nor more than $50 for the 2nd or subsequent conviction within a year. (2) Any person violating ss. 347.03, 347.07 to 347.12, 347.13 (1) or 347.14 to 347.29 may be required to forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $200. (3) Notwithstanding sub. (2), on or after April 5, 2018, and before 6 months after April 5, 2018, if a person violates s. 347.24 (2) by operating on a highway during hours of darkness a vehicle that is drawn by an animal and that is not equipped with 2 yellow or amber strobe lights visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear and mounted not more than 6 inches from the lateral extremities of the vehicle, a law enforcement officer shall issue the person a warning notice and may not issue a citation.History:  1971 c. 278; 2017 a. 228.
WI Stat § 347.36 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.36 - Performance ability of brakes.

347.36  Performance ability of brakes. (1) Brakes on motor vehicles and brakes on combinations of vehicles shall be capable of bringing the vehicle or combination of vehicles to a stop, under normal conditions, within 50 feet when traveling at a speed of 20 miles per hour. (3) All required brakes shall be maintained in good working order.History:  1983 a. 243.
WI Stat § 347.37 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.37 - Brake fluid, sale regulation.

347.37  Brake fluid, sale regulation. (1) After January 1, 1960, no hydraulic brake fluid for use in motor vehicles shall be sold in this state if such brake fluid is below the minimum standard of specifications established by the society of automotive engineers for heavy duty type brake fluid No. 70R1 or a later designator for an improved product. (2) All manufacturers of brake fluids selling such fluids in Wisconsin shall state on the immediate containers in which such fluid is packaged that the fluid therein meets or exceeds the specifications under sub. (1).
WI Stat § 347.38 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.38 - Horns and warning devices.

347.38  Horns and warning devices. (1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway unless such motor vehicle is equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than 200 feet, but no person shall at any time use a horn otherwise than as a reasonable warning or make any unnecessary or unreasonably loud or harsh sound by means of a horn or other warning device. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no vehicle shall be equipped with nor shall any person use upon a vehicle any siren or compression or exhaust whistle. (3) Any vehicle may be equipped with a theft alarm signal device if such device is so arranged that it cannot be used by the driver as an ordinary warning signal. (4) An authorized emergency vehicle shall be equipped with a siren, but such siren shall not be used except when such vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, when transporting an organ for human transplantation, or when transporting medical personnel for the purpose of performing human organ harvesting or transplantation immediately after the transportation, in which events the driver of such vehicle shall sound the siren when reasonably necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers.History:  2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 347.385 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.385 - Auxiliary lamps on emergency vehicles; traffic control signal emergency preemption devices.

347.385  Auxiliary lamps on emergency vehicles; traffic control signal emergency preemption devices. (1m) In this section:(a) “Authorized emergency vehicle" means an authorized emergency vehicle as defined in s. 340.01 (3) (a), (c), (g), or (i).(b) “Emergency preemption device" means a device, located on or within a traffic control signal, that is designed to receive an electronic, radio, light, or sound transmission from an approaching vehicle that alters the normal sequence of the traffic control signal to provide or maintain a green signal for the vehicle to proceed through the intersection.(c) “Transmitter" means a device that emits a signal for the purpose of activating an emergency preemption device. (2m) An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped and operated with lamps designed and used, or with any other transmitter designed and used, to activate emergency preemption devices. (3m) The lamps authorized for use under this section may be any color and may be flashing, oscillating, rotating or pulsating. (4) No operator of an authorized emergency vehicle may use a transmitter, including lamps under sub. (2m), except when responding to an emergency call, when pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to, but not when returning from, a fire alarm. (5) (a) No person may operate upon a highway a motor vehicle, other than an authorized emergency vehicle, that is equipped with a transmitter or in which a transmitter is located. This subsection does not apply to a motor carrier or person in the business of selling transmitters to authorized users who transports a transmitter in original, unopened packaging or in an inoperative condition in an enclosed storage compartment of the vehicle.(b) No person may sell a transmitter except for use for authorized purposes as described in sub. (2m).History:  2005 a. 193 ss. 1 to 6; Stats. 2005 s. 347.385.
WI Stat § 347.39 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.39 - Mufflers.

347.39  Mufflers. (1) No person shall operate on a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an adequate muffler in constant operation and properly maintained to prevent any excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke. This subsection also applies to motor bicycles. (2) No muffler or exhaust system on any vehicle mentioned in sub. (1) shall be equipped with a cutout, bypass or similar device nor shall there be installed in the exhaust system of any such vehicle any device to ignite exhaust gases so as to produce flame within or without the exhaust system. No person shall modify the exhaust system of any such motor vehicle in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor of such vehicle above that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle, and such original muffler shall comply with all the requirements of this section. (3) In this section, “muffler" means a device consisting of a series of chambers of baffle plates or other mechanical design for receiving exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine and which is effective in reducing noise.History:  1983 a. 243.
WI Stat § 347.40 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 347 - Equipment of vehicles.|347.40 - Mirrors.

347.40  Mirrors. (1) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon a highway unless such vehicle is equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the operator a view of the roadway for a distance of 200 feet to the rear of such vehicle. (2) No person shall operate on a highway any school bus having a passenger-carrying capacity of 10 or more persons including the operator unless such bus is equipped with at least one mirror which is 7 inches in diameter so located as to enable the operator to see a reflection of the road from the entire front bumper forward to a point where direct observation is possible. (3) No person may operate or permit the operation of any motor bus on a highway unless the bus is equipped with 2 outside rearview mirrors, one to the right and one to the left of the operator. Each mirror shall have not less than 50 square inches of unobstructed reflective surface and shall be firmly supported and adjustable to give the operator a clear view past both the right and left rear of the bus.History:  1975 c. 84; 1987 a. 235.