Behind the Badge

Breitung Chief of Police Dan Reing answers your questions regarding Minnesota law enforcement.

January 14, 2025

This week’s question:

Q:  Do you have to have working license plate lights? —-Shara, Tower

A:  Yes, you are required by law to have working license plate lights. I have included the state statute from the Minnesota website. Make sure to have license plate lights that work, you can be stopped legally for this.

169.50 REAR LAMPS.

Subd. 2.License plates. Either such rear lamp or separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any rear lamp or rear lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.

My email is: daniel.reing@breitungtownship.org  Please title the email “law enforcement question.”