§ 39-27-17.1 — Headlamps on motorcycles

North Dakota § 39-27-17.1

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 39: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 39-27: Motorcycle Equipment

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1. The headlamp or headlamps upon every motor-driven cycle may be of the
single-beam or multiple-beam type.
2. Every headlamp or headlamps on a motor-driven cycle must be of sufficient intensity
to reveal a person or a vehicle at a distance of not less than one hundred feet [30.48
meters] when the motor-driven cycle is operated at any speed less than twenty-five
miles [40.23 kilometers] per hour and at a distance of not less than two hundred feet
[60.96 meters] when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed of twenty-five or
more miles [40.23 or more kilometers] per hour, and at a distance of not less than
three hundred feet [91.44 meters] when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed
of thirty-five miles [56.33 kilometers] per hour.
3. In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a multiple-beam headlamp or
headlamps the upper beam must meet the minimum requirements set forth above and
may not exceed the limitations set forth in subsection 1 of section 39-21-20 and the
lowermost beam must meet the requirements applicable to a lowermost distribution of
light as set forth in subsection 2 of section 39-21-20.
4. In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a single-beam lamp or lamps the
lamp or lamps must be so aimed that when the vehicle is loaded none of the
high-intensity portion of light, at a distance of twenty-five feet [7.62 meters] ahead,
projects higher than the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes.