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(d) The tail lamp on a motorcycle may contain a blue insert as authorized in NRS 486.261.
[Part 6:166:1925; A 1939, 316; 1945, 268; 1955, 40]—(NRS A 1969, 1214; 2003, 402)
NRS 484.565 Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps and side marker lamps.
1. Reflectors required in NRS 484.563 shall be mounted at a height not less than 15 inches and not higher than 60 inches above the ground on which the vehicle stands, except that if the highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle is less than 15 inches the reflector at such point shall be mounted as high as that part of the permanent structure will permit.
2. Any required red reflector on the rear of such vehicle may be incorporated with the tail lamp, but such reflector shall meet all the other reflector requirements of this chapter.
3. Except as provided in subsections 4 and 5, clearance lamps shall be mounted on the permanent structure of the vehicle in such a manner as to indicate its extreme width and as near the top thereof as practicable. Clearance lamps and side marker lamps may be mounted in combination provided illumination is given as required in this chapter with reference to both.
4. When rear identification lamps are mounted at the extreme height of the vehicle, rear clearance lamps may be mounted at optional height.
5. When mounting of front clearance lamps at the highest point of a trailer results in such lamps failing to mark the extreme width of a trailer, such lamps shall be mounted at a height to indicate the extreme width of the trailer.
[Part 6:166:1925; A 1939, 316; 1945, 268; 1955, 40]—(NRS A 1969, 1214)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.340)
NRS 484.567 Visibility requirements for reflectors, clearance lamps, identification lamps and marker lamps.
1. Every reflector required by NRS 484.561 shall be of such size and characteristics and so maintained as to be readily visible at nighttime from all distances within 600 feet to 100 feet from the vehicle when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps.
2. Every front and rear clearance lamp and identification lamp required by NRS 484.561 shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the times lighted lamps are required at all distances between 500 feet to 50 feet from the front and rear, respectively, of the vehicle on which mounted.
3. Every side marker lamp required by NRS 484.561 shall be capable of being seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the times lighted lamps are required at all distances between 500 and 50 feet from the side of the vehicle on which mounted.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1205; A 1975, 30)
NRS 484.569 Obstructed lights. Whenever motor vehicles and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp (except tail lamps) need not be lighted which by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination, but this shall not affect the requirement that lighted clearance lamps be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lamps or that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.
[Part 6:166:1925; A 1939, 316; 1945, 268; 1955, 40]—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.360)
NRS 484.571 Lamps on parked vehicle.
1. Every vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lamps which, when lighted, shall display a white or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front of the vehicle, and one or more lamps which, when lighted, shall display a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear of the vehicle. The location of such lamps shall be such that at least one such lamp is installed as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is closest to passing traffic.
2. Whenever a vehicle is parked upon the traveled portion of a highway during the times mentioned in NRS 484.545 and there is sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of 1,000 feet upon such highway, no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.
3. Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon the traveled portion of a highway or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in NRS 484.545, and there is insufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of 1,000 feet upon such highway or roadway, such vehicle shall display lighted lamps meeting the requirements of subsection 1.
4. Any lighted head lamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.
[Part 6:166:1925; A 1939, 316; 1945, 268; 1955, 40]—(NRS A 1960, 60; 1969, 1215)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.370)
NRS 484.573 Lamps and reflectors on farm tractors, farm equipment and implements of husbandry.
1. Every farm tractor and every self-propelled unit of farm equipment or implement of husbandry manufactured after January 1, 1970, shall be equipped with vehicular hazard-warning lamps of a type described in NRS 484.585, visible from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the front and rear in normal sunlight, which shall be displayed whenever any such vehicle is operated upon a highway.
2. Every farm tractor and every self-propelled unit of farm equipment or implement of husbandry manufactured after January 1, 1970, shall at all times, and every other such vehicle shall, during the times mentioned in NRS 484.545, be equipped with lamps and reflectors as follows:
(a) At least two head lamps meeting the requirements of NRS 484.587.
(b) At least one red lamp visible when lighted from a distance of not less than 1,000 feet to the rear, mounted as far to the left of the center of the vehicle as practicable.
(c) At least two red reflectors visible from all distances within 600 feet to 100 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps.
3. Every combination of farm tractor and towed farm equipment or implement of husbandry shall at all times mentioned in NRS 484.545 be equipped with lamps and reflectors as follows:
(a) The farm tractor shall be equipped as required in subsections 1 and 2.
(b) If the towed unit extends more than 4 feet to the rear of the tractor or obscures any lamp on the tractor, such unit shall be equipped on the rear with at least two red reflectors visible from all distances within 600 feet to 100 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps.
(c) If the towed unit extends more than 4 feet to the left of the centerline of the tractor, such unit shall be equipped on the front with an amber reflector visible from all distances within 600 feet to 100 feet to the front when directly in front of lawful beams of head lamps. Such reflector shall be so positioned as to indicate, as nearly as practicable, the extreme left projection of the towed unit.
4. The two red reflectors required by subsection 3 shall be so positioned as to show from the rear, as nearly as practicable, the extreme width of the vehicle or combination carrying them.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1206)
NRS 484.575 Lamps and reflectors on other vehicles. All vehicles including animal-drawn vehicles not otherwise specifically required to be equipped with lamps, shall at all times specified in NRS 484.545 be equipped with at least one lamp displaying a white light visible from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the front of the vehicle and two lamps displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the rear of the vehicle or one lamp displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the rear and two red reflectors visible from all distances of 600 to 100 feet to the rear when illuminated by the lawful lower beams of head lamps.
[Part 6:166:1925; A 1939, 316; 1945, 268; 1955, 40]—(NRS A 1969, 1215; 1975,
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