What lights are required on farm equipment?
Lighting requirements apply during hours of darkness, as given below. Farm tractors and self-propelled farm implements operated or parked on a public road must have the same lighted headlamps and tail lamps as are required of other motor vehicles. This means that two headlamps and at least one red tail lamp are required. If a vehicle was originally sold with two tail lamps, both must be working. Tail lamps are to be mounted 20 to 72 inches off the ground. Implements of husbandry, such as farm wagons or other non-self-propelled farm implements, must have either two red tail lamps or two red reflectors on the rear. Implements manufactured before 1984 are allowed to have only one lamp or two red reflectors. This is in addition to the SMV emblem. Animal-drawn vehicles are required to have one white lamp visible from the front, and two red lamps visible from the rear marking the width of the vehicle. A machine should never be operated or parked on the road with a white work light showing to
