Bill Text: IA SF2067 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Amended

Iowa Senate Bill 2067 (Prior Session Legislation)

IA State Legislature page for SF2067

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to lighted headlamps on motor vehicles, and making penalties applicable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-22 - Subcommittee: Bacon, Maxwell and Olson. H.J. 372. [SF2067 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2067-Amended.html


Senate File 2067 - Reprinted




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  SHIPLEY
       (As Amended and Passed by the Senate February 19, 2018)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to lighted headlamps on motor vehicles, and
  2    making penalties applicable.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.384, Code 2018, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    321.384  When lighted lamps required.
  1  4    1.  Every motor vehicle upon operated on a highway within the
  1  5 state, at any time from sunset to sunrise, and at such other
  1  6 times when conditions such as during any period of fog, snow,
  1  7 sleet, or rain provide insufficient lighting to render clearly
  1  8 discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance
  1  9 of five hundred feet ahead, shall display lighted headlamps as
  1 10 provided in section 321.415, subject to exceptions provided in
  1 11 this chapter with respect to parked vehicles as hereinafter
  1 12 stated.
  1 13    2.  Whenever Any requirement is hereinafter declared as to
  1 14  provided in this chapter regarding the distance from which
  1 15 certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or
  1 16 within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, said
  1 17 provisions shall apply during the times stated in subsection
  1 18 1 of this section upon a straight level unlighted highway
  1 19 under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or
  1 20 condition is expressly stated.
  1 21    Sec. 2.  Section 321.415, Code 2018, is amended by adding the
  1 22 following new subsection:
  1 23    NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  A motor vehicle's factory=installed
  1 24 daytime running headlamps shall be deemed to satisfy the
  1 25 requirements of subsection 1 if the distribution of light is
  1 26 directed high enough and is of sufficient intensity to reveal
  1 27 persons and vehicles at a safe distance in advance of the
  1 28 vehicle.
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