Amendment AA1-AB773

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, To 1995 ASSEMBLY BILL 773

February 29, 1996 - Offered by Committee on Highways and Transportation.

AB773-AA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

AB773-AA1,1,2 1. Page 1, line 2: delete "direction signal".

AB773-AA1,1,3 2. Page 1, line 3: before that line insert:

AB773-AA1,1,4 " Section 1c. 347.10 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB773-AA1,1,11 347.10 (1) Except as provided in sub. (4), the headlamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or the auxiliary passing lamp or combination thereof on motor vehicles other than mopeds and motor bicycles shall be so arranged that the driver may select at will between distributions of light projected to different elevations. No such lamp shall have any type of decorative covering that restricts the amount of light emitted when the lamp is in use. Such lamps may, in addition, be so arranged that such selection can be made automatically.

AB773-AA1, s. 1e Section 1e. 347.10 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB773-AA1,2,2 347.10 (4) Any motor vehicle may be operated during hours of darkness when equipped with 2 lighted lamps upon the front thereof capable of revealing persons and objects 75 feet ahead in lieu of lamps required by subs. (1) to (3) if such vehicle at no time is operated at a speed in excess of 20 miles per hour. No lighted lamp under this subsection shall have any type of decorative covering that restricts the amount of light emitted when the lighted lamp is in use.

AB773-AA1, s. 1g Section 1g. 347.11 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB773-AA1,2,9 347.11 (2) The headlamp shall display a white light of sufficient illuminating power to reveal any person, vehicle or substantial object at a distance of 200 feet ahead and shall be so adjusted or operated that the glaring light rays therefrom are not directed into the eyes of the driver of any oncoming vehicle. No headlamp shall have any type of decorative covering that restricts the amount of light emitted when the headlamp is in use.

AB773-AA1, s. 1j Section 1j. 347.13 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB773-AA1,2,19 347.13 (1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, mobile home or trailer or semitrailer upon a highway during hours of darkness unless such motor vehicle, mobile home or trailer or semitrailer is equipped with at least one tail lamp mounted on the rear which, when lighted during hours of darkness, emits a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. No tail lamp shall have any type of decorative covering that restricts the amount of light emitted when the tail lamp is in use. No vehicle originally equipped at the time of manufacture and sale with 2 tail lamps shall be operated upon a highway during hours of darkness unless both such lamps are in good working order.".

AB773-AA1,2,20 3. Page 1, line 3: delete " Section 1" and substitute "Section 1m".

AB773-AA1,2,21 (End)