South Carolina § 56-5-4620 - Lighting lamps on vehicles operated in combination.
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§ 56-5-4620. Lighting lamps on vehicles operated in combination.
Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp, except tail lamps, need not 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, nor that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 46-537; 1952 Code SECTION 46-537; 1949 (46) 466.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 56-5-4620 ("Lighting lamps on vehicles operated in combination.") is part of the South Carolina Code of Laws, the codified statutory law of South Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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