§ 11.60.040. Lights, reflectors on vehicles.

(a)

Every motor vehicle or trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, and any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a combination of vehicles, shall be equipped with at least two taillamps mounted on the rear, which when lighted as required in Section 11.60.030, shall emit red light plainly visible from a distance of one thousand feet to the rear, except that passenger cars manufactured or assembled prior to July 1, 1959, shall have at least one taillamp. On a combination of vehicles, only the taillamps on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen from the distance specified. On vehicles equipped with more than one taillamp, the lamps shall be mounted on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable.

(b)

Every taillamp upon every vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than seventy-two inches nor less than fifteen inches.

(c)

Either a taillamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. Any taillamp or taillamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.

(d)

Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the taillamps or separately, two or more red reflectors meeting the requirements of this section; provided, that vehicles of the types mentioned in Section 11.60.050 shall be equipped with reflectors meeting the requirements of subsection (a) of Section 11.60.070 and subsection (a) of Section 11.60.080.

(e)

Every such reflector shall be mounted on the vehicle at a height not less than fifteen inches nor more than sixty inches measured as set forth in subsection (c) of Section 11.60.030, and shall be of such size and characteristics and so mounted as to be visible from all distances within six hundred feet to one hundred feet from such vehicle when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps, except that reflectors on vehicles manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1970, shall be visible at night from all distances within three hundred fifty feet to one hundred feet when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps.

(Ord. No. 39-100 § 3)