Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 304

Traffic Regulations

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Section 304.033.1

304.034→

August 28, 2015

Recreational off-highway vehicles, operation on highways prohibited, exceptions--operation within streams and rivers prohibited, exceptions--license required for operation, exception.

304.033. 1. No person shall operate a recreational off-highway

vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, upon the highways of this state,

except as follows:



(1) Recreational off-highway vehicles owned and operated by a

governmental entity for official use;



(2) Recreational off-highway vehicles operated for agricultural

purposes or industrial on-premises purposes;



(3) Recreational off-highway vehicles operated within three miles of

the operator's primary residence. The provisions of this subdivision shall

not authorize the operation of a recreational off-highway vehicle in a

municipality unless such operation is authorized by such municipality as

provided for in subdivision (5) of this subsection;



(4) Recreational off-highway vehicles operated by handicapped persons

for short distances occasionally only on the state's secondary roads;



(5) Governing bodies of cities may issue special permits to licensed

drivers for special uses of recreational off-highway vehicles on highways

within the city limits. Fees of fifteen dollars may be collected and

retained by cities for such permits;



(6) Governing bodies of counties may issue special permits to

licensed drivers for special uses of recreational off-highway vehicles on

county roads within the county. Fees of fifteen dollars may be collected

and retained by the counties for such permits.



2. No person shall operate a recreational off-highway vehicle within

any stream or river in this state, except that recreational off-highway

vehicles may be operated within waterways which flow within the boundaries

of land which a recreational off-highway vehicle operator owns, or for

agricultural purposes within the boundaries of land which a recreational

off-highway vehicle operator owns or has permission to be upon, or for the

purpose of fording such stream or river of this state at such road

crossings as are customary or part of the highway system. All law

enforcement officials or peace officers of this state and its political

subdivisions or department of conservation agents or department of natural

resources park rangers shall enforce the provisions of this subsection

within the geographic area of their jurisdiction.



3. A person operating a recreational off-highway vehicle on a highway

pursuant to an exception covered in this section shall have a valid

operator's or chauffeur's license, except that a handicapped person

operating such vehicle pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of this

section, but shall not be required to have passed an examination for the

operation of a motorcycle. An individual shall not operate a recreational

off-highway vehicle upon * a highway in this state without displaying a

lighted headlamp and a lighted tail lamp. A person may not operate a

recreational off-highway vehicle upon a highway of this state unless such

person wears a seat belt. When operated on a highway, a recreational

off-highway vehicle shall be equipped with a roll bar or roll cage

construction to reduce the risk of injury to an occupant of the vehicle in

case of the vehicle's rollover.



(L. 2012 H.B. 1251 merged with H.B. 1402 merged with H.B. 1647 merged

with H.B. 1807, et al. merged with S.B. 470 merged with S.B. 480)



*Word "on" added here in original rolls of H.B. 1807, et al., 2012.







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