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Session Laws, 1970
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Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1505

(b)    Front and rear clearance lamps and identification lamps
shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmos-
pheric conditions at the times lights are required at all distances
between 500 and 50 feet from the front and rear, respectively, of the
vehicle.

(c)    Side marker lamps shall be capable of being seen and dis-
tinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the times lights
are required at all distances between 500 and 50 feet from the side of
the vehicle on which mounted.

§ 12-212. Obstructed lights not required.

Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination
during the time that lights are required, any lamp (except tail
lamps) need not be lighted which, by reason of its location on a
vehicle of the combination, would be obscured by another vehicle of
the combination, but this shall not affect the requirement that lighted
clearance lamps be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle
required to have clearance lamps, nor that all lights required on the
rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.

§ 12-213. Lamps or flags on projecting load.

(a)    Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends beyond the side
or to the rear 4 feet or more beyond the bed or body of the vehicle
there shall be displayed at the extreme rear end of the load, at the
times specified in section 12-201, (1) two red lamps, visible from a
distance of at least 500 feet to the rear, (2) two red reflectors meet-
ing the requirements of section 12-211 (a), visible from the rear and
located so as to indicate maximum width, and (3) on each side one
red lamp, visible from a distance of at least 500 feet to the side,
located so as to indicate maximum overhang. There shall be dis-
played at all other times on any vehicle having a load which extends
beyond either side more than 6 inches, or more than 4 feet beyond its
rear, red flags, not less than 16 inches square, marking the extremi-
ties of such load, at each point a lamp is specified in the preceding
sentence. Every such flag shall be so mounted or constructed that
its full dimensions are visible at all times.

(b)    This section in no way limits the provisions of section 14-103,
or any other provision of law which prohibits certain extensions of
loads on vehicles.

§ 12-214. Lamps on parked vehicles.

(a)    Every vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps
which, when lighted, display a white or amber light visible from a
distance of 1,000 feet to the front of the vehicle, and a red light
visible from a distance of 1,000 feet to the rear of the vehicle. The
location of the lamp or lamps shall always be such that at least one
lamp or combination of lamps meeting the requirements of this sec-
tion is installed as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which
is closest to passing traffic. The foregoing provisions shall not apply
to a motorcycle.

(b)    Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway,
whether attended or unattended, when there is insufficient light to
reveal any person or object within a distance of 1000 feet upon the


 

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