484D.165 - Lamps on parked vehicle.

484D.165  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 484D.100 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 484D.100, 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 headlamps 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 484.571)