63-7-35 - Single-beam road-lighting equipment. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 63-7-35. 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 10, 1948 in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment specified in Section 63-7-31 if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations: 
 

(a) 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. 

(b) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred feet. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8229-13; Laws,  1938, ch. 200; Laws, 1948, ch. 343, § 21.