321.388  Illuminating plates.

Either the rear lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. When the rear registration plate is illuminated by an electric lamp other than the required rear lamp, the two lamps shall be turned on or off only by the same control switch at all times when head lamps are lighted.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 1571-m17; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5045; C39, § 5033.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.388]

Section History: Recent form

  85 Acts, ch 195, §38

Internal References

  Referred to in § 321.1, 321.385A, 456A.12, 805.8(2c)


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