SF 1560

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to traffic regulations; regulating display of 
  1.3             vehicle lights; making technical, conforming, and 
  1.4             clarifying revisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.5             2002, section 169.48, subdivision 1. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 169.48, 
  1.8   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [LIGHTS TO BE DISPLAYED.] (a) Every vehicle 
  1.10  upon a highway at any time within this state: 
  1.11     (1) at any time from sunset to sunrise; 
  1.12     (2) at any time when it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or 
  1.13  hailing; and 
  1.14     (3) at any other time when visibility is impaired by 
  1.15  weather, smoke, fog or other conditions or there is not 
  1.16  sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and 
  1.17  vehicles on the highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead; 
  1.18  shall must display lighted lamps and illuminating devices, 
  1.19  as hereinafter, respectively, required for different classes of 
  1.20  vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles 
  1.21  and law enforcement vehicles, as hereinafter stated under 
  1.22  sections 169.48 to 169.66.  In addition to the other 
  1.23  requirements of this paragraph, every school bus transporting 
  1.24  children upon a highway within this state, at any time from a 
  1.25  half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset, shall 
  2.1   display lighted lamps and illuminating devices as required by 
  2.2   this paragraph, except that 
  2.3      (b) From sunrise to sunset, the operator shall use the 
  2.4   lowermost distribution of light specified in section 169.60 
  2.5   unless conditions warrant otherwise. 
  2.6      (b) When requirement is hereinafter declared as to (c) 
  2.7   Those provisions of sections 169.48 to 169.66 governing the 
  2.8   distance from which certain lamps and devices shall must render 
  2.9   objects visible or within which such the lamps or devices shall 
  2.10  must be visible, these provisions shall apply during the time 
  2.11  stated in this section that provision, if any, upon a straight, 
  2.12  level, unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions 
  2.13  unless a different time or condition is expressly stated and.  
  2.14  In addition, unless otherwise specified, the location of lamps 
  2.15  and devices shall refer refers to the center of such the lamps 
  2.16  or devices.  
  2.17     (d) Parking lamps shall must not be used in lieu of head 
  2.18  lamps to satisfy the requirements of this section.