Headlamps with single distribution of light - Farm tractors and certain other motor vehicles.

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Headlamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light shall be permitted on farm tractors and motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to September 1, 1962, in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

1. The headlamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet ahead project higher than a level of five (5) inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than forty-two (42) inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five (75) feet ahead.

2. The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least three hundred (300) feet.

Added by Laws 1961, p. 401, § 12-223. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 411, § 40, eff. Nov. 1, 2003. Renumbered from Title 47, § 12-223 by Laws 2003, c. 411, § 85, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.


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