Connecticut § 14-96n - General lighting requirements.
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§ 14-96n. General lighting requirements.
Sec. 14-96n. General lighting requirements. (a) Every vehicle, including animal-drawn vehicles, not specifically required by the provisions of sections 14-96a to 14-96aa, inclusive, to be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices, shall, at all times specified in subsection (a) of section 14-96a, be equipped with at least one lamp displaying a white light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the front of such vehicle, and shall also be equipped with two lamps displaying red light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear of said vehicle, or, as an alternative, one lamp displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear and two red reflectors visible from all distances between six hundred and one hundred feet to the rear when illuminated by the upper beams of head lamps.
(b) Each person driving or leading any animal on any public highway from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise shall carry a light, which shall be so displayed as to be visible a distance of two hundred feet both in front and at the rear of such animal.
(c) Failure to carry lighting devices as required by this section shall be an infraction.
(1967, P.A. 834, S. 15; P.A. 75-577, S. 40, 126.)
History: P.A. 75-577 added Subsec. (c).
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