The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on Jan. 6, 1928:"ALL HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLES MUST HAVE PARKING LIGHTSSuch is Opinion on New Traffic Act as Rendered by Assistant Attorney General YoungquistThe traffic law passed by the last legislature requires that horse-drawn vehicles be equipped with parking lights when parked, according to an opinion by G.A. Youngquist, assistant attorney general, in reply to a query from A.C. Godward, city planning engineer of Minneapolis. The traffic act as originally drawn required all vehicles on the highways at night to have front and rear lights. This portion of the act was amended to apply only to ‘motor vehicles.’ Section 54, relating to parking, however, says that ‘Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a highway, whether attended or unattended, during the times mentioned in section 49, (one-half hour after sunset one-half hour before sunrise) there shall be displayed upon such vehicles one or more lamps projecting a white light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle and projecting a red or yellow light visible under like conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the rear.’A section of the bill permitting use of reflectors in place of rear lights on horse-drawn vehicles was stricken out. Apparently, as the law now stands, you can drive a wagon or sleigh without lights, but you cannot stop on any street or highway. The law, however, permits municipalities to pass ordinances permitting parking any vehicle without lights in places where there is sufficient light to reveal a person 200 feet away.Even if it is now required by law, it would seem that anyone driving any kind of a vehicle on any traveled road would have lights as a matter of self-protection."Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society. P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.