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Session Laws, 1939
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 823

adjusted and operated as to enable the operator or driver
to proceed with safety to himself and other users of the
highways under all conditions of light, road and weather,
provided, however, that the following classes of vehicles
shall display under the above condition not less than the
lights next specified, to wit:

(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; and in addition, every motor truck, trailer and com-
mercial motor vehicle, having a width of ninety inches or
over, including the load, and not equipped with permanent
marker lights at the front and rear, located approximately
at the left side of such vehicle, shall be provided with a
light attached to the extreme left of such vehicle showing
white, or tinted color other than red, to the front and red
to the rear, which shall be visible for a distance of 200 feet
from both front and rear, and so attached and adjusted
as to indicate the extreme left lateral extension of the
vehicle or load.

(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) Bicycles, one white light visible to the front for a
distance of 200 feet and one red light or red reflector so
displayed that it may be readily and distinctly seen from
the rear;

(f) 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; any person who shall park a motor vehicle
and shall fail to turn on said parking light shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not less than one dollar ($1. 00) nor more than twenty-
five dollars ($25. 00).

(g) 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


 

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