South Carolina § 56-5-4790 - Single-beam road-lighting equipment.
Full text of South Carolina South Carolina Code of Laws § 56-5-4790 — Single-beam road-lighting equipment., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 56-5-4790. Single-beam road-lighting equipment.
Head lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to April 29, 1939 in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified, if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:
(1) The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead project higher than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes and in no case higher than forty-two inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead; and
(2) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred feet.
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 46-549; 1952 Code SECTION 46-549; 1949 (46) 466.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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