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337.06 TRAFFYC CObE 34 337.06 SAFETY LIGHTING ON COMMERCIAL VEHICLES .. Clearance lights, marker lights, reflectors, and stop lights on buses, trucks, com- mercial tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers, when operated upon any street, shall be equipped as required by State regulations, and shall be lighted at all times mentioned in Section 337.02 except that clearance lights and side marker lights need not be lighted on a vehicle operated where th©re is sufficient light to reveal any person or sub- - stantial object on the street at a distance of five hundred feet. Such equipment shall be in addition to all other lights specifically required by Section 337.02 to Section 337.15, inclusive. (ORC 4513.07) .337.0? OBSCURED LIGHTS ON VEHICLES IN COMBINATION. Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any light, except tall lights,. which by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination need not be lighted, but this section does not affect the requirement that lighted clearance. lights be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lights or that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted. (ORC 4513.08; Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42.) 337.08 RED LIGHT OR RED FLAG ON EXTENDED LOADS. Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the rear four feet or .more beyond the bed'or body of such vehicle, there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of the load , at the times specified in Section 337.02, a red light or lantern plainly visible from a dis- tance of at least five hundred feet to the aides and rear. The red light or lantern required by this section Is in addition to the red rear light required upon every vehicle. At any other time there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of such load a red flag or cloth not less than sixteen inches square. (ORC 4513.09 ;Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42.) 337.09 LIGHTS ON PARKED UR STOPPED VEHICLES. Except in case of an emergency, whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a road- way open to traffic or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether attQnded or unattended during the times mentioned in Section 337.02', such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lights which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from a distance of flue hundred feet to the front of such vehicle, and a red light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear. No lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when it is stopped or parked where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or substantial object within a distance of five hundred feet upon such street. Any lighted headlights upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed. (ORC 4613.10) 337.10 LIGHTS ON SLOW-MOVING VEHICLES. All vehicles, including those referred to in Section 337.01 not specifically required to be equipped with lights by Section 337.02 to Section 337.09, inclusive,. shall at all times specified in Section 337.02, display at least one lighted light or lantern exhibiting a white light visible from a distance of approximately five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle and, except ae hereinafter provided, a light or lantern exhibiting a red light visible from a distance of approximately five hundred feet to the rear. ~,.