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TITLE 17. THE PUBLIC SAFETY
Part I. Vehicles and Road
Safety
Chapter 4.
Equipment
Section 17.401. Lighting
equipment.
A motor vehicle upon a road is
equipped with required working lighting equipment during the period from a half
hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise and at any other time when there
is not sufficient light to see clearly a person on the road at a distance of two
hundred feet.
Section 17.402. Head
lamps.
A motor vehicle other than a
motorcycle or farm tractor is equipped with two headlights at the front of and
on opposite sides of the motor vehicle. A motorcycle is equipped with at
least one and not more than two headlights. A headlight produces a driving
light sufficiently clear to enable the driver to see clearly a person two
hundred feet ahead, but may not project a glaring or dazzling light to a person
in front of the headlight.
Section 17.403. Tail lamps.
A motor vehicle and trailer carries
at the rear a red light plainly visible at a distance of two hundred
feet.
Section 17.404. Lamps on
other vehicles and equipment.
(1) A bicycle used on the road is equipped with a light in the front and a reflex mirror in the rear.
(2) A cart or wagon used on a road is equipped with a light plainly visible at a distance of two hundred feet from both the front and rear.
A motor vehicle is equipped with
brakes adequate to control the movement of, and to stop and hold, the vehicle.
A motorcycle is provided with two brakes operable by hand or foot. A
brake is adequate to stop a motor vehicle within a safe distance and is
maintained in good working order.
Section 17.406. Metal
tires.
No motor vehicle with metal tires is
operated on a road without the Governor's permission.
Section 17.407. Annual
inspection.
The Chief of Police inspects a motor
vehicle to determine its compliance with this chapter. By regulation the
Chief of Police provides for the nature of the inspection. The Chief of
Police may cancel the registration of a vehicle which he finds unsafe or unfit
to be operated or is not equipped as required by this chapter.
Background
Added by State Law 3-88 repealed the previous
Section 17.407 and renumbered the previous Section 17.408 as
17.407.
Section 17.408. Brake
Lights.
A motor vehicle other than a
motorcycle or farm tractor is equipped with at least two red brake lights at the
rear of and on opposite sides of the motor vehicle. A motorcycle is
equipped with at least one red brake light. A brake light produces a
red light which is visible at a distance of two hundred feet when the motor
[vehicles] brakes are applied.