§ 15-91. Generally.

(a)

(1)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway, road, street or alley in the city during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, unless such vehicle shall display at least two lighted lamps on the front, one on each side, having a light source of equal power, which shall project either white or yellow light.

(2)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway, road, street or alley in the city without lighted lamps when existing weather conditions require usage of the motor vehicle's windshield wipers and/or during periods of reduced visibility caused, for example, by fog, snow or similar adverse weather conditions.

(3)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway, road, street or alley in the city without white lighted lamps that illuminate when the motor vehicle is placed in reverse. Such illuminated lamps shall be prohibited except when backing.

(b)

Every person driving a motor vehicle equipped with multiple-beam road-lighting equipment, during the times when lighted lamps are required, shall use a distribution of light or composite beam, directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, subject to the following requirements and limitations: Whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet or is within 300 feet to the rear of another vehicle traveling in the same direction, such driver shall use a distribution of light or composite beam so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of the other driver, and in no case shall the high intensity portion which is projected into the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle be aimed higher than the center of the lamp from which it comes at a distance of 25 feet ahead, and in no case higher than a level of 42 inches above the level upon which the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead.

(c)

No person shall operate a motor vehicle on any highway, road, street or alley in the city during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, unless such vehicle shall display two lighted lamps on the rear, which shall display a red light visible from the rear for a distance of at least 500 feet. Either such rear lamps or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration marker and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. When the rear registration marker is illuminated by an electric lamp other than the required rear lamps, all such lamps shall be turned on or off only by the same control switch at all times.

(Code 1973, § 14-78; Ord. No. 05-22, § 1, 4-25-05; Ord. No. 14-01, § 2, 1-13-14)