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60-6,187. Special speed limitations; motor vehicle towing a mobile home; motor-driven cycle.(1) No person shall operate any motor vehicle when towing a mobile home at a rate of speed in excess of fifty miles per hour.(2)(a) A person may operate any motor-driven cycle at a speed in excess of thirty-five miles per hour upon a roadway at nighttime if such motor-driven cycle is equipped with a headlight or headlights capable of revealing a person or vehicle in such roadway at least three hundred feet ahead and with a taillight on the rear exhibiting a red light visible, under normal atmospheric conditions, from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the rear of such motor-driven cycle.(b) A person may operate any motor-driven cycle at a speed in excess of twenty-five miles per hour, but not more than thirty-five miles per hour, upon a roadway at nighttime if such motor-driven cycle is equipped with a headlight or headlights capable of revealing a person or vehicle in such roadway at least one hundred feet ahead, but less than three hundred feet ahead, and with a taillight on the rear exhibiting a red light visible, under normal atmospheric conditions, from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the rear of such motor-driven cycle.(c) A person shall not operate any motor-driven cycle upon a roadway at nighttime if the headlight or headlights do not reveal a person or vehicle in such roadway at least one hundred feet ahead, or the taillight is not visible, under normal atmospheric conditions, from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the rear of such motor-driven cycle. SourceLaws 1973, LB 45, § 66; Laws 1974, LB 873, § 2; Laws 1975, LB 381, § 2; Laws 1977, LB 256, § 2; Laws 1979, LB 23, § 2; Laws 1987, LB 430, § 2; Laws 1987, LB 504, § 2; Laws 1990, LB 369, § 1; R.S.Supp.,1992, § 39-666; Laws 1993, LB 370, § 283; Laws 1996, LB 901, § 8; Laws 2005, LB 80, § 1. Cross ReferencesLivestock forage vehicles, speed limits, see section 60-6,305.Mopeds, maximum speed, see section 60-6,313.Operator's license, assessment of points for speeding, see section 60-4,182 et seq. AnnotationsUnreasonable classification of persons is not created hereby. State ex rel. Douglas v. Gradwohl, 194 Neb. 745, 235 N.W.2d 854 (1975).