Missouri

Missouri Revised Statutes — Traffic Regulations (Ch. 300–307)

487 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 300.010 — Definitions
• § 300.015 — Police administration
• § 300.020 — Duty of traffic division
• § 300.025 — Records of traffic violations
• § 300.030 — Traffic division to investigate accidents
• § 300.035 — Traffic accident studies
• § 300.040 — Traffic accident reports
• § 300.045 — Driver files to be maintained
• § 300.050 — Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report
• § 300.055 — Traffic division to designate method of identifying funeral processions
• § 300.060 — City traffic engineer
• § 300.065 — Emergency and experimental regulations
• § 300.070 — Traffic commission established
• § 300.075 — Authority of police and fire department officials
• § 300.080 — Obedience to police and fire department officials
• § 300.085 — Persons propelling push carts or riding animals to obey traffic regulations
• § 300.090 — Use of coasters, roller skates and similar devices restricted
• § 300.095 — Public employees to obey traffic regulations
• § 300.100 — Authorized emergency vehicles
• § 300.105 — Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles
• § 300.110 — Immediate notice of accident within city
• § 300.115 — Written report of accident
• § 300.120 — When driver unable to report
• § 300.130 — Authority to install traffic control devices
• § 300.135 — Manual and specifications for traffic control devices
• § 300.140 — Obedience to traffic control devices
• § 300.145 — When official traffic control devices required for enforcement purposes
• § 300.150 — Official traffic control devices
• § 300.155 — Traffic control signal legend
• § 300.160 — Pedestrian control signals
• § 300.165 — Flashing signals
• § 300.170 — Lane direction control signals
• § 300.175 — Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings
• § 300.180 — Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad signs or signals
• § 300.185 — Authority to establish play streets
• § 300.190 — Play streets
• § 300.195 — City traffic engineer to designate crosswalks and establish safety zones
• § 300.200 — Traffic lanes
• § 300.205 — State speed laws applicable
• § 300.210 — Regulation of speed by traffic signals
• § 300.215 — Required position and method of turning at intersection
• § 300.220 — Authority to place and obedience to turning markers
• § 300.225 — Authority to place restricted turn signs
• § 300.230 — Obedience to no-turn signs
• § 300.235 — Limitations on turning around
• § 300.240 — Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys
• § 300.245 — One-way streets and alleys
• § 300.250 — Authority to restrict direction of movement on streets during certain periods
• § 300.255 — Through streets designated
• § 300.260 — Signs required at through streets
• § 300.265 — Other intersections where stop or yield required
• § 300.270 — Stop and yield signs
• § 300.275 — Vehicle entering stop intersection
• § 300.280 — Vehicle entering yield intersection
• § 300.285 — Emerging from alley, driveway or building
• § 300.290 — Stop when traffic obstructed
• § 300.295 — Obedience to signal indicating approach of train
• § 300.300 — Following emergency vehicle prohibited
• § 300.305 — Crossing fire hose
• § 300.310 — Driving through funeral or other procession
• § 300.315 — Driving in procession
• § 300.325 — When permits required for parades and processions
• § 300.330 — Vehicle shall not be driven on a sidewalk
• § 300.335 — Limitations on backing
• § 300.340 — Opening and closing vehicle doors
• § 300.345 — Riding on motorcycles, additional passenger, requirements
• § 300.347 — Riding bicycle on sidewalks, limitations
• § 300.348 — All-terrain vehicles, prohibited
• § 300.350 — Riding bicycles, sleds, roller skates, by attaching to another vehicle, prohibited
• § 300.355 — Controlled access
• § 300.360 — Railroad trains not to block streets
• § 300.365 — Driving through safety zone prohibited
• § 300.370 — Pedestrians subject to traffic control devices
• § 300.375 — Pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks
• § 300.380 — Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalks
• § 300.385 — Crossing at right angles
• § 300.390 — When pedestrian shall yield
• § 300.395 — Prohibited crossing
• § 300.400 — Obedience of pedestrians to bridge and railroad signals
• § 300.410 — Drivers to exercise highest degree of care
• § 300.411 — Distance to be maintained when overtaking a bicycle
• § 300.415 — Standing or parking close to curb
• § 300.420 — Signs or markings indicating angle parking
• § 300.425 — Obedience to angle parking signs or markers
• § 300.430 — Permits for loading or unloading at an angle to the curb
• § 300.435 — Lamps on parked vehicles
• § 300.440 — Stopping, standing or parking prohibited
• § 300.445 — Parking not to obstruct traffic
• § 300.450 — Parking in alleys
• § 300.455 — Parking for certain purposes prohibited
• § 300.460 — Parking adjacent to schools
• § 300.465 — Parking prohibited on narrow streets
• § 300.470 — Standing or parking on one-way streets
• § 300.475 — Standing or parking on one-way roadways
• § 300.480 — No stopping, standing or parking near hazardous or congested places
• § 300.485 — City traffic engineer to designate curb loading zones
• § 300.490 — Permits for curb loading zones
• § 300.495 — Standing in passenger curb loading zone
• § 300.500 — Standing in freight curb loading zones
• § 300.505 — City traffic engineer to designate public carrier stops and stands
• § 300.510 — Stopping, standing and parking of buses and taxicabs regulated
• § 300.515 — Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands
• § 300.520 — Application of ordinance
• § 300.525 — Regulations not exclusive
• § 300.530 — Parking prohibited at all times on certain streets
• § 300.535 — Parking prohibited during certain hours on certain streets
• § 300.540 — Stopping, standing or parking prohibited during certain hours on certain streets
• § 300.545 — Parking signs required
• § 300.550 — Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets
• § 300.555 — When person charged may elect to appear at bureau
• § 300.560 — Duties of traffic violations bureau
• § 300.565 — Traffic violations bureau to keep records
• § 300.570 — Additional duties of traffic violations bureau
• § 300.575 — Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests
• § 300.580 — Procedure of police officers
• § 300.585 — Uniform traffic ticket to be issued when vehicle illegally parked or stopped
• § 300.590 — Warning of arrest sent upon failure to appear
• § 300.600 — Cities may adopt ordinance by reference
• § 302.010 — Definitions
• § 302.011 — Lawfully present defined
• § 302.015 — License classification system, director to establish
• § 302.020 — Operation of motor vehicle without proper license prohibited, penalty
• § 302.025 — Driver training programs, instruction on traffic stops
• § 302.026 — Motorcycle operators twenty-six years of age or older, no protective headgear required, when
• § 302.041 — License by municipality not required
• § 302.051 — Government-owned vehicles, who may operate
• § 302.060 — License not to be issued to whom, exceptions
• § 302.063 — No issuance of a driver's license to illegal aliens or persons who cannot prove lawful presence
• § 302.067 — Lawful presence or citizenship, proof of to be presented once
• § 302.080 — Exemptions from license law
• § 302.110 — List of licensed drivers
• § 302.120 — Applications for license, accident reports and court convictions to be filed, how
• § 302.130 — Issuance of temporary instruction permit, when
• § 302.132 — Minimum age and requirements to apply for temporary motorcycle instruction permit, restrictions
• § 302.133 — Definitions
• § 302.134 — Motorcycle safety education program, commission to establish and set standards, program to include certain subjects
• § 302.135 — Private or public institutions may also conduct motorcycle training courses, tuition fee may be charged
• § 302.137 — Motorcycle safety trust fund established, purpose
• § 302.140 — Instruction permit, fee
• § 302.150 — Driving privilege of nonresident subject to suspension, revocation or disqualification
• § 302.160 — Assessment of points and suspension or revocation of license, notice of conviction outside Missouri
• § 302.169 — Selective Service System registration at time of application for driver's license, procedure
• § 302.170 — Federal REAL ID Act, compliance with
• § 302.171 — Application for license
• § 302.172 — Exchange of drivers' licenses, foreign countries, reciprocal agreements, content
• § 302.173 — Driver's examination required, when
• § 302.174 — Deaf or hard of hearing, driver's license special notation, definitions
• § 302.175 — Vision requirements
• § 302.176 — First-time licenses, information to receive
• § 302.177 — Licenses, issuance and renewal, duration, fees
• § 302.178 — Intermediate driver's license, issued to whom, requirements, limitations, fee, duration, point assessment
• § 302.179 — Notice of expiration of license
• § 302.180 — Photo identification for election purpose, nondriver identification card not compliant with federal REAL ID Act to be issued
• § 302.181 — Form of license
• § 302.182 — Permanent disability notation on driver's and nondriver's licenses
• § 302.184 — Boater identification card, notation for compliance with boating safety requirements
• § 302.185 — Duplicate license, REAL ID compliant license
• § 302.186 — Active military duty, expiration of driver's license during, renewal without examination, when
• § 302.187 — Municipalities and counties to pay replacement costs of driver's license, when
• § 302.188 — Veteran designation on driver's licensed or ID card, requirements
• § 302.190 — Duration of suspension of license
• § 302.200 — Effect of revocation
• § 302.205 — Medical alert notation on driver's license or nondriver's identification card, when
• § 302.220 — Prohibited uses of license
• § 302.225 — Surrender of license
• § 302.228 — Fees, how deposited
• § 302.230 — Penalty for false statement or affidavit
• § 302.233 — Fraud in obtaining a license or permit, penalty
• § 302.250 — Children forbidden to operate motor vehicle
• § 302.260 — Unlicensed person operating motor vehicle prohibited
• § 302.272 — School bus endorsement, qualifications
• § 302.273 — Federal rule compliance for bus drivers
• § 302.274 — Central depository concerning certain bus drivers, to be maintained by director of revenue
• § 302.275 — Notification by employer of school bus driver to director of revenue, when, penalty for noncompliance, by an employer
• § 302.276 — Suspension of school bus permit, when, penalty for noncompliance by driver with suspended permit
• § 302.281 — Suspension for unsatisfied judgment
• § 302.286 — Theft of motor fuel punishable by suspension of driver's license
• § 302.291 — Incompetent or unqualified operators, director may require examination, when
• § 302.292 — Medical/vision advisory board established, qualifications, appointment, terms, vacancy, how filled
• § 302.301 — Restricted licenses
• § 302.302 — Point system
• § 302.303 — Conviction for failure to maintain financial responsibility or court-ordered supervision, court to forward to revenue, failure to appear in court
• § 302.304 — Notice of points
• § 302.306 — Reduction of point value charged after period of safe driving
• § 302.308 — Effect of conviction prior to enactment
• § 302.309 — Return of license, when
• § 302.311 — Suspension or revocation
• § 302.312 — Department of revenue and department of health and senior services, bureau of vital statistics, records, admissible in evidence, when
• § 302.321 — Driving while license or driving privilege is cancelled, suspended or revoked, penalty
• § 302.340 — Penalty for violations
• § 302.341 — Moving traffic violation, failure to prepay fine or appear in court, license suspended, procedure
• § 302.342 — Suspended or revoked license, person changing state of residence, cleared of requirements
• § 302.345 — Diversion program participation prohibited, when
• § 302.347 — Federal record-keeping rule to be adopted
• § 302.400 — Suspension or revocation of driving privileges, persons under twenty-one years of age
• § 302.405 — Revocation of driving privileges, persons over twenty-one years of age
• § 302.410 — Director of revenue to suspend or revoke license, when
• § 302.415 — Failure to surrender licenses, certain law enforcement officer may seize
• § 302.420 — License reinstatement, substance abuse traffic offender program
• § 302.425 — Completion of substance abuse traffic offender program, persons under twenty-one years of age, required, when, standards by department of mental health