ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 8
(By Senator Bailey)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported January 24, 1995.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article fifteen, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to motor vehicles; traffic regulations, laws of the road; equipment; requiring head lamps to be in use at certain times; and requiring certain vehicles to have head lamps lighted at all times.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article fifteen, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 15. EQUIPMENT.

§17C-15-2. When lighted lamps are required.

Every vehicle other than a school bus, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle or moped operated upon a highway within this state at any time from sunset to sunrise, or during fog, smoke, rain or other unfavorable atmospheric conditions, or at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred feet ahead, shall display lighted head lamps and illuminating devices as hereinafter respectively required for different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles as hereinafter stated. Every school bus, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle and moped shall display lighted head lamps at all times when upon the highway.