Glasgow Limitations on Lamps Other than Headlamps: Flashing Signals Prohibited Except on Specified Vehicles ordinance (§ 370.100)
Chapter 370: Vehicle Equipment · Article I. Light Regulations
In short: Lamps other than headlamps, spotlamps, front turn signals or auxiliary lamps over 300 candlepower must not light the road beyond 75 feet. Flashing warning lights are allowed only on school buses in school use, mail vehicles, emergency vehicles, worship buses and passenger vehicles stopped for passengers, or as turn signals.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than headlamps, spotlamps, front direction signals or auxiliary lamps which projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred (300) candlepower shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five (75) feet from the vehicle. Alternately flashing warning signals may be used on school buses when used for school purposes and on motor vehicles when used to transport United States mail from post offices to boxes of addressees thereof and on emergency vehicles as defined in Section 300.010 of this Title and on buses owned or operated by churches, mosques, synagogues, temples or other houses of worship and on commercial passenger transport vehicles or railroad passenger cars that are stopped to load or unload passengers, but are prohibited on other motor vehicles, motorcycles and motor-drawn vehicles except as a means for indicating a right or left turn.
Official source: City of Glasgow official Code of Ordinances (online), § 370.100
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.