§ 42-4-204 — When lighted lamps are required

Colorado § 42-4-204

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 42: Vehicles and
• Art.: Regulation of Vehicles and Traffic

Text

(1) Every vehicle upon a
highway within this state, between sunset and sunrise and at any other time when,
due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons and
vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of one thousand
feet ahead, shall display lighted lamps and illuminating devices as required by this
article for different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to
parked vehicles.

(2) Whenever requirement is declared by this article as to distance from
which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within which such
lamps or devices shall be visible, said provisions shall apply during the times stated
in subsection (1) of this section in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a
straight, level, unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions, unless a
different time or condition is expressly stated.

(3) Whenever requirement is declared by this article as to the mounted
height of lamps or devices, it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to
the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without a load.

(4) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class A
traffic infraction.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2242, � 1, effective January 1, 1995.