8-1806. Road-lighting equipment on motor-driven cycles.
8-1806
8-1806. Road-lighting equipment on motor-driven cycles.
The head lamp or head lamps upon every motor-driven cycle may be of the
single-beam or multiple-beam type, but in either event shall comply with
the requirements and limitations as follows:
(a) Every such head lamp or head lamps on a motor-driven cycle shall be
of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of not
less than one hundred (100) feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at
any speed less than twenty-five (25) miles per hour, and at a distance of
not less than two hundred (200) feet when the motor-driven cycle is
operated at a speed of twenty-five (25) or more miles per hour, and at a
distance of not less than three hundred (300) feet when the motor-driven
cycle is operated at a speed of thirty-five (35) or more miles per hour.
(b) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a multiple-beam
head lamp or head lamps, such equipment shall comply with the requirements
of K.S.A. 8-1805.
(c) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a single-beam
lamp or lamps, such lamp or lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle
is loaded none of the high intensity portion of light, at a distance of
twenty-five (25) feet ahead, shall project higher than the level of the
center of the lamp from which it comes.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1806; July 1.