Title 31
Motor and Other Vehicles

Chapter 24
Lighting Equipment and Reflectors

R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-24-20

§ 31-24-20. Back up lamps.

Any motor vehicle may be equipped without not more than two (2) back-up lamps either separately or in combination with other lamps, but no back-up lamp shall be lighted when the motor vehicle is in forward motion. Violations of this section are subject to fines enumerated in § 31-41.1-4.

History of Section.
P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 34, § 18; P.L. 1950 (s.s.), ch. 2639, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 31-24-20; P.L. 2002, ch. 292, § 121.