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Kansas Statutes Chapter 8. Automobiles and Other Vehicles § 8-1726. Single-beam road-lighting equipment permitted on certain vehicles

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Head lamp systems which provide only a single distribution of light shall be permitted on all farm tractors, regardless of date of manufacture, and on other motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to July 1, 1938, in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified, if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

(1) The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high intensity portion of the light at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet ahead shall project higher than a level of five (5) inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than forty-two (42) inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five (75) feet ahead.

(2) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred (200) feet.

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