HOUSE BILL No. 4035


     January 8, 1997, Introduced by Rep. Middaugh and referred to the Committee on Transportation.


        A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

   "Michigan vehicle code,"

   by amending section 684 (MCL 257.684).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 684.  (1)  (a) Every  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 694

 2    WITH RESPECT TO PARKED VEHICLES, A vehicle upon a highway within

 3    this state  at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half

 4     hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not suf-

 5     ficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles

 6     on the highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead  shall display

 7    lighted lamps and illuminating devices as  hereinafter

 8     respectively  required IN THIS ACT for different classes of vehi-

 9    cles  , subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles as

10     hereinafter stated.  AT ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TIMES:




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 1         (A) AT ANY TIME FROM SUNSET TO SUNRISE INCLUDING THE

 2    TWILIGHT HOURS.  AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, "TWILIGHT HOURS"

 3    MEANS THE TIME BETWEEN SUNSET AND FULL NIGHT OR BETWEEN FULL

 4    NIGHT AND SUNRISE.

 5         (B) WHEN THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT LIGHT TO RENDER CLEARLY

 6    DISCERNIBLE PERSONS AND VEHICLES ON THE HIGHWAY AT A DISTANCE OF

 7    500 FEET AHEAD.

 8         (C) DURING RAIN, SMOKE, FOG, OR SNOW.

 9         (2) When lighted lamps and illuminated devices are required

10    by law,  no  A vehicle shall NOT be operated upon any highway of

11    this state with only the parking lights illuminated on the front

12    of the vehicle.

13         (3)  (b) Whenever  IF A requirement is  hereinafter

14     declared  PROVIDED IN THIS ACT as to the distance from which cer-

15    tain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within

16    which such lamps or devices shall be visible,  said provisions 

17    THE REQUIREMENT shall apply during the times stated in  paragraph

18     (a) of this section  SUBSECTION (1) upon a straight, level,

19    unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a

20    different time or condition is expressly stated.

21         (4)  (c) Whenever  IF A requirement is  hereinafter

22     declared  PROVIDED IN THIS ACT as to the mounted height of lamps

23    or devices, it shall mean from the center of  such  THE lamp or

24    device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when

25     such  THE vehicle is without a load.







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