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90_HB1469
625 ILCS 5/12-201 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201
Amends the Vehicle Code. Requires that motor vehicles
exhibit lighted head lamps from sunset to sunrise (now, from
a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise).
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Vehicle Code by changing
2 Section 12-201.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
6 changing Section 12-201 as follows:
7 (625 ILCS 5/12-201) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201)
8 Sec. 12-201. When lighted lamps are required.
9 (a) When operated upon any highway in this State, every
10 motorcycle shall at all times exhibit at least one lighted
11 lamp, showing a white light visible for at least 500 feet in
12 the direction the motorcycle is proceeding. However, in lieu
13 of such lighted lamp, a motorcycle may be equipped with and
14 use a means of modulating the upper beam of the head lamp
15 between high and a lower brightness. No such head lamp shall
16 be modulated, except to otherwise comply with this Code,
17 during times when lighted lamps are required for other motor
18 vehicles.
19 (b) All other motor vehicles shall exhibit at least 2
20 lighted head lamps, with at least one on each side of the
21 front of the vehicle, showing white lights, or lights of a
22 yellow or amber tint, during the period from a half hour
23 after sunset to a half hour before sunrise, at times when
24 rain, snow, fog, or other atmospheric conditions require the
25 use of windshield wipers, and at any other times when, due to
26 insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions,
27 persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly
28 discernible at a distance of 1000 feet. Parking lamps may be
29 used in addition to but not in lieu of such head lamps. Every
30 motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer shall also exhibit at
31 least 2 lighted lamps, commonly known as tail lamps, which
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1 shall be mounted on the left rear and right rear of the
2 vehicle so as to throw a red light visible for at least 500
3 feet in the reverse direction, except that a truck tractor or
4 road tractor manufactured before January 1, 1968 and all
5 motorcycles need be equipped with only one such tail lamp.
6 (c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so
7 constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light a
8 rear registration plate when required and render it clearly
9 legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any tail lamp
10 or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for
11 illuminating a rear registration plate, shall be so wired as
12 to be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving
13 lamps are lighted.
14 (Source: P.A. 88-147.)