Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 304

Traffic Regulations

←304.260

Section 304.271.1

304.281→

August 28, 2015

Observance of traffic-control devices--presumptions--penalty.

304.271. 1. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any

official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with

the provisions of the law, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police

officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized

emergency vehicle in the law.



2. No provision of the law for which official traffic-control devices

are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and

place of the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position

and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.

Whenever a particular section does not state that official traffic-control

devices are required, such section shall be effective even though no devices

are erected or in place.



3. Whenever official traffic-control devices are placed in position

approximately conforming to the requirements of the law, such devices shall

be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful

authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.



4. Any official traffic-control device placed pursuant to the provisions

of the law and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to

such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this

chapter, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.



5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 304.361, violation of this

section is a class C misdemeanor.



(L. 1969 S.B. 180 § 1, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1047)







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