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Session Laws, 1927
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1067

(a) Motor vehicles, other than the specific classes here-
inafter enumerated, shall be provided with two white or tinted
lights, other than red, of approximately equal and of not less
than ten candlepower mounted on opposite sides and visible
from the front, for a distance of 200 feet, and one red light
visible from the rear for a distance of 200 feet;

(b) Motor cycles and tractors, one white or tinted light,
other than red, visible from the front for a distance of 200
feet, and one red light visible to the rear for a distance of
200 feet;

(c) Trailers and vehicles towed, one red light visible to
the rear for a distance of 200 feet;

(d) Side-cars, one white light visible to the front for a
distance of 200 feet;

(e) Standing motor vehicles, including all the above, at
least one white or tinted light, other than red, visible to the
front for a distance of 200 feet, and red to the rear visible
for a similar distance carried on the left of such vehicle.

(f) Horse-drawn and all other vehicles of every kind on
a public highway, in motion or at rest, one white light visible
from both front and rear, or a white light visible from the
front and red light visible from the rear for a distance of at
least 200 feet.

In the case of moving motor vehicles the numerals on the
rear registration marker shall be so illuminated as to be clearly

discernible at a distance of not less than twenty-five (25)
feet from the rear, and the registration markers on both front
and rear shall at all times be kept clean, clear, discernible and
unobscured.

Glaring Lights. No vehicle of any kind, including motor
vehicles and horse-drawn vehicles, shall at any time, whether
in motion or at rest, use on any public highway of this State
any lighting device which shall throw a dazzling or glaring
light to a height of more than forty-two (42) inches above the
surface of the road when measured on a level road at a distance
of seventy-five (75) feet or more ahead.

Candle Power. No motor vehicle of any kind shall at any
time, whether in use or not in use, be equipped with an elec-
tric bulb or other lighting device of a greater capacity than
thirty-two (32) candle-power, no matter how the same may be
shaded, covered or obscured.

 

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