Bill Text: MI HB5237 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; equipment; use of headlights when operating a vehicle during inclement weather and while windshield wipers are activated; require. Amends sec. 684 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.684).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-28 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/09/2017 [HB5237 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5237-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5237

 

 

November 9, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Kahle, Leutheuser, Brann and Schor and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 684 (MCL 257.684).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 684. (1) (a) Every vehicle upon a highway within of this

 

state at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour

 

before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient

 

light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the

 

highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead shall display lighted lamps

 

and illuminating devices as hereinafter respectively required in

 

this chapter for different classes of vehicles, subject to

 

exceptions with respect to except for parked vehicles as

 

hereinafter stated. provided in this chapter. When lighted lamps

and illuminated devices are required by law no vehicle shall be

 

operated upon any highway of this state with only the parking

 

lights illuminated on the front of the vehicle.

 

     (2) (b) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the

 

distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects

 

visible or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible,

 

said provisions shall apply during the times stated in paragraph

 

(a) of this section The requirements of this chapter concerning the

 

distance from which lamps and devices shall render objects visible

 

or from which the lamps and devices shall be visible apply during

 

the period provided in subsection (1) upon a straight, level,

 

unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a

 

different time or condition is expressly stated.

 

     (3) (c) Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the

 

mounted height of lamps or devices, it shall mean The requirements

 

of this chapter concerning the mounted height of lamps and devices

 

shall be calculated from the center of such lamp or device to the

 

level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such the vehicle is

 

without a load.

 

     (4) Every vehicle upon a highway in this state shall display

 

lighted lamps and illuminating devices during periods of rain,

 

snow, fog, or other similar atmospheric conditions, and at all

 

times when the vehicle's windshield wipers are activated.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.