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Session Laws, 1941
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1369

Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Motor
Vehicles", sub-heading "Brakes, Bells, Lights and Mufflers",
relating to lights on motor vehicles.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section (3) of Section 194 of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses",
sub-title "Motor Vehicles", sub-heading "Brakes, Bells, Lights
and Mufflers", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

(3) Lights. Every vehicle, including motor vehicles and
horse drawn vehicles, operated or driven on the public high-
ways of the State, at any time when there is not sufficient day-
light to render clearly discernible a person, vehicle or other
substantial object on the highway at a distance of two hundred
(200) feet ahead, shall be provided with lights, as hereinafter
provided of sufficient power and so adjusted and operated as
to enable the operator or driver to proceed with safety to him-
self 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 herein-
after enumerated, shall be provided with two white or tinted
lights, other than red, of approximately equal and of not less
than ten candle power 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 commercial 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 dis-
tance 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) Motorcycles 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-ears, one white light visible to the front for a dis-
tance of 200 feet;

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

 

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