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91_SB0084eng SB84 Engrossed LRB9100677KSgc 1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Vehicle Code by changing 2 Section 12-201. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by 6 changing Section 12-201 as follows: 7 (625 ILCS 5/12-201) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-201) 8 Sec. 12-201. When lighted lamps are required. 9 (a) When operated upon any highway in this State, every 10 motorcycle shall at all times exhibit at least one lighted 11 lamp, showing a white light visible for at least 500 feet in 12 the direction the motorcycle is proceeding. However, in lieu 13 of such lighted lamp, a motorcycle may be equipped with and 14 use a means of modulating the upper beam of the head lamp 15 between high and a lower brightness. No such head lamp shall 16 be modulated, except to otherwise comply with this Code, 17 during times when lighted lamps are required for other motor 18 vehicles. 19 (b) All other motor vehicles shall exhibit at least 2 20 lighted head lamps, with at least one on each side of the 21 front of the vehicle, showing white lights, or lights of a 22 yellow or amber tint, during the period froma half hour23aftersunset toa half hour beforesunrise, at times when 24 rain, snow, fog, or other atmospheric conditions require the 25 use of windshield wipers, and at any other times when, due to 26 insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, 27 persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly 28 discernible at a distance of 1000 feet. Parking lamps may be 29 used in addition to but not in lieu of such head lamps. Every 30 motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer shall also exhibit at 31 least 2 lighted lamps, commonly known as tail lamps, which SB84 Engrossed -2- LRB9100677KSgc 1 shall be mounted on the left rear and right rear of the 2 vehicle so as to throw a red light visible for at least 500 3 feet in the reverse direction, except that a truck tractor or 4 road tractor manufactured before January 1, 1968 and all 5 motorcycles need be equipped with only one such tail lamp. 6 (c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so 7 constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light a 8 rear registration plate when required and render it clearly 9 legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any tail lamp 10 or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for 11 illuminating a rear registration plate, shall be so wired as 12 to be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving 13 lamps are lighted. 14 (Source: P.A. 88-147.)