|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ART. LVI] MOTOR VEHICLES. 393
marker, provided, however, in the event of the sale of a motor vehicle,
the person using the same may, for a period of five days, and no longer,
operate such motor vehicle under the number assigned to it as afore-
said, provided he shall have and display on the demand of any proper
officer the actual consent in writing of such previous owner to use such
number; and provided also that where it clearly appears that the regis-
tration number has been lost, by accident, no penalty shall be imposed.
Any person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, subject to a fine of not
less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for
the first offense.
Brakes, Bells, Lights and Mufflers.
1916, ch. 687. 1917, ch. 20. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 148.
148. (1) BRAKES. Every motor vehicle, while in use on the pub-
lic highways of this State, shall be provided with adequate brakes.
(2) HORNS. Every such motor vehicle shall be equipped with a
suitable bell, horn or other signalling device producing an abrupt sound
sufficiently loud to serve as an adequate warning of danger, but no
person operating any motor vehicle shall make or cause to be made any
unnecessary noise with such bell, horn or signalling device, or use the
same except as a warning of danger, and such signalling device shall
not be sounded while passing a horse or other animal in the open coun-
try. Within the limits of cities, towns and villages, loud sounding sig-
nalling devices shall not be used during the period from one hour after
sunset to one hour before sunrise, unless absolutely necessary to avoid
accidents. An adequate signalling device shall in all cases be sounded
on approaching curves, tops of hills and intersecting highways in the
open country where the operator's view is obstructed.
(3) LIGHTS. All motor vehicles in use on the public highways, ex-
cepting motorcycles, shall during the period of from one-half hour
after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, display two or more white
or tinted lights, other than red, on the forward part of said vehicles, so
placed as to be seen from the front, and of sufficient illuminating power
to be visible at a distance of two hundred (200) feet in the direction
in which displayed, and to reveal any person, vehicle or substantial
object twenty-five feet ahead of the lamps, except when at rest it shall
display at least one light, showing white to the front and red to the
rear, carried to the left of the motor vehicle, visible from both front
and rear for a distance of not less than two hundred feet. Said motor
vehicle when in use shall also display on the rear a lamp so constructed
and placed as to show a red light from the rear and throw a white light
directly upon the rear registration marker and render the numerals
thereon visible for at least twenty-five feet in the direction from which
the vehicle is proceeding. A motorcycle, whether in use or at rest, shall
display on the forward part one white or tinted light, as aforesaid, and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
