Connecticut § 14-96j - Vehicles operated in combination.
Full text of Connecticut Connecticut General Statutes § 14-96j — Vehicles operated in combination., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 14-96j. Vehicles operated in combination.
Sec. 14-96j. Vehicles operated in combination. Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lighted lamps are required, no lamp, except tail lamps, need 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 or that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted. Failure to provide lamps as required by this section shall be an infraction.
(1967, P.A. 834, S. 11; P.A. 75-577, S. 36, 126.)
History: P.A. 75-577 added provision that failure to provide lamps is an infraction.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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