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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:32:324",
  "title_number": "32",
  "section_number": "324",
  "citation": "R.S. 32:324",
  "heading": "Lighting equipment on motor-driven cycles",
  "text": "The head lamp or head lamps upon every motor-driven cycle may be of the single-beam or multiple-beam type but in either event shall comply with the requirements and limitations as follows:\n\n(1) Every said head lamp or head lamps on a motor-driven cycle shall be of sufficient intensity to reveal a person or a vehicle at a distance of not less than 100 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at any speed less than 25 miles per hour and at a distance of not less than 200 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed of 25 or more miles per hour, and at a distance of not less than 300 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed of 35 or more miles per hour.\n\n(2) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a multiple beam head lamp or head lamps the upper beam shall meet the minimum requirements set forth above and shall not exceed the limitations set forth in R.S. 32:321(1), and the lowermost beam shall meet the requirements applicable to a lowermost distribution of light as set forth in R.S. 32:321(2).\n\n(3) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a single beam lamp or lamps, said lamp or lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is loaded none of the high intensity portion of light, at a distance of 25 feet ahead, shall project higher than the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes.",
  "status": "active",
  "hierarchy_path": [
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "32",
      "name": "MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATION"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "1",
      "name": "LOUISIANA HIGHWAY REGULATORY ACT"
    },
    {
      "level": "part",
      "number": "V",
      "name": "EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES"
    },
    {
      "level": "subpart",
      "number": "A",
      "name": "LAMPS AND OTHER LIGHTING EQUIPMENT"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 32 › Chapter 1 › Part V › Subpart A",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 1962,
      "act_number": 310,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=88266",
  "website_law_id": 88266,
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