63-13-3 - Operation of vehicles without required properly operating equipment or in unsafe mechanical condition.
§ 63-13-3. Operation of vehicles without required properly operating equipment or in unsafe mechanical condition.
No person shall drive or move on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer, or any combination thereof, unless the equipment upon any and every said vehicle is in good working order and adjustment as required in this chapter, and said vehicle is in such safe mechanical condition as not to endanger the driver or other occupant or any person upon the highway. This section shall not apply to disabled vehicles being moved to a garage or service station by means of another vehicle, or to farm trailers engaged in farm operations, or to any farm tractor, combine, cotton picker, semitrailer, pole trailer, or other agricultural or farming equipment or machinery, or any combination thereof, used primarily for agricultural purposes, and not normally used on the public highways of the state. Moreover, pulpwood trucks or log trucks used exclusively during daylight hours shall not be required under the provisions of this chapter to have any lights in addition to headlights and taillights.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8258-02; Laws, 1960, ch. 408, § 2; Laws, 1966, ch. 572, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved June 7, 1966).