(A) Motor vehicles shall exhibit at least two lighted headlamps, with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle, showing white lights or lights of a yellow or amber tint, during the period from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise; at times when rain, snow, fog, or other atmospheric conditions require the use of windshield wipers; and at any other times when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of 1,000 feet. Parking lamps may be used in addition to, but not in lieu of, such headlamps. Every motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer shall also exhibit at least two lighted lamps, commonly known as tail lamps, which shall be mounted on the left rear and right rear of the vehicle so as to throw a red light visible for at least 500 feet in the reverse direction, except that a truck tractor or road tractor manufactured before January 1, 1968, and all motorcycles need to be equipped with only one such tail lamp.
(B) Motorcycles. When operated upon any highway or street in this city, every motorcycle shall at all times exhibit at least one lighted lamp, showing a white light visible for at least 500 feet in the direction the motorcycle is proceeding.
(C) Visibility of license plates. Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so construed and placed as to illuminate with a white light a rear registration plate when required, and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any tail lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for illuminating a rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted.
(Ord. 14-17, passed 11-14-2017) Penalty, see § 70.99