Last time I checked, it is also illegal in CA to drive with high beams and fog
lights on too. Factory cars sold here are wire so that if you have you high
beams on your fog lights are disabled. Unfortunately, I see a lot of people in
the Bay area, that have them wired incorrectly, not to metion the habit of
driving with 'parking' lights on (sorry just a pet peeve).
- Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
San Jose, CA
>Subject: Re: driving light and generator
>To: "Allen Hefner" <Ajhsys@aol.com>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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>Just keep working to make me look like an idiot huh?? Well I stand
>corrested for PA but I know in WY it is illegal for driving light and Hi
>beams at the same time. Got a ticket to prove it. As well as I can recall
>the same is true for Colorado and Arkansas as well.
>
>Larry
>
>>>>>On 9/9/99 10:28 AM so and so (Allen Hefner) said. (And I quote:)
>
>>In a message dated 9/9/99 8:13:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu writes:
>>
>><< In most states it is illegal to have driving lights on at the same time
>> as the high beams. I know this is true in the states I have lived in
>> anyway. >>
>>
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>>
>>Not in the state you live in now! See section I.1 below. Here are most of
>>the pertinent parts of the PA Code. I left out the parts about snowplow
>>lights:
>>
>> (l) Auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps. Auxiliary driving lamps and fog
>>lamps may be installed on a passenger vehicle or light truck if the lamps
>>comply with the following:
>>
>> (1) Auxiliary driving lamps shall not be substituted for headlamps.
>>Auxiliary driving lamps may only be used with high headlamp beams.
>>
>> (2) Fog lamps may not be substituted for headlamps.
>>
>> (3) Auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps shall be mounted on the front,
>>spaced at least 20 inches apart from center to center and at height not more
>>than 42 inches above level surface upon which the vehicle stands nor lower
>>than the lowest chassis part. Rear fog lamps, if originally installed or
>>offered as optional equipment, are acceptable.
>>
>> (4) Auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps shall be aimed when the
>>vehicle
>>and lamp assembly are in the straight ahead position with the beam not above
>>horizontal centerline of lamp at 25 feet.
>>
>> (5) A vehicle specified under this subchapter may have only one pair of
>>approved auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps.
>>
>> (6) Auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps shall not be placed in front
>>of
>>a required lamp.
>>
>> (9) In accordance with 75 Pa.C.S. ß 4303(f) (relating to general
>>lighting requirements), roof or roll bar mounted off-road lights may be
>>installed if they are not used on a highway or trafficway and are covered
>>with an opaque covering at all times while operating on the highway or
>>trafficway. Vehicles equipped with roof or roll bar mounted off-road lights
>>shall have a switch that indicates to the driver, through the use of a pilot
>>light, that the lights are on when so switched.
>>
>> (m) Antique vehicle lighting exemption. An antique vehicle, if operated
>>exclusively between the hours of sunrise to sunset and not during periods of
>>reduced visibility or insufficient illumination, is exempt from requirements
>>of this section except requirements pertaining to stop lamps.
>>
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>>
>>Allen Hefner
>>'77 Midget
>>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>
>
>Larry Macy
>78 Midget
>
>Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
>Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>System Manager/Administrator
>Neuropsychiatry Section
>Department of Psychiatry
>University of Pennsylvania
>3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
>Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
>In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
>gates?
>
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