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20 - Section 77~ (a) No person shall place or knom~ngly drop upon shy part of a street, any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles, except such sub- stances that m~oy be placed there by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof, which may damage or injure any person, vehicle, street car or trackless trolley or animal traveling along ®r upon such street~ (b) Any person who.~drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any street any destructive or injurious material, shall immediately remove the same or c~.use it to be removed, (c) Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle, street car or trackless trolley from a street shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the street from such vehicle, street car or trackless trolley. (d) No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a street without proper authority~ Section 78. (a) No person shall drive or move or cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any street any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person° (b) Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be construed to prohibit the use of additional psrts and accessories on any vehicle not inconsistent with the pro- visions of this ordinance. (c) The provisions of this ordinance with respect to equipment on vehicles shall not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, road rollers, or agricul- tural tractors except as herein made applicable. Section 79. (a) Every vehicle upon a street open to traffic within the City of Lakewood during the time from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, and at any other time when there is not sufficient natural ligh~ to render discernible per~ons, vehicles and substsntial objects on the street at a distance of five h~udred feet ahead shall display lighted lamps and illuminating devices as hereinafter re- spectively required for different classes of vehicles, subJec~ to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles as hereinafter stated. (b) Whenever a requirement is hereinafter declared as to the distance from wkich certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible .or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, such distance shall be measured upon a straight level unlighted street under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different condi- tion is expressly statede (c) .Whenever a requirement is hereinafter declared as to the mounted height of lamps or devices it shall mean from the center of such lamD or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands. Section 80~ (a) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, and every track- less trolley shall be equipped with at least two head lam. ps with at least one near each side of the front of the motor vehicle or trackless trolley which head lamp shall comply with the requirem, ents and limitations set forth in this ordinance. (b) Every motorcycle shall be equipped with at least one and not more than two head lamps w~ch shall c0mplywith the requirements and limitations of this ordinance. Section 81~ (a) Every motor vehicle, trackless trolley, trailer~ semi-trailer, pole trailer or any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least one tail lamp mounted on the rear v~ich, when lighted as hereinbefore required, shall emit a red light visible from a distznce of five h~u~dred feet to the rear, p~ovided that in the case of a traih of vehicles only the tail lamp on the rearmost vehicle need be visible from the distance specified. (b) Either a tail l~mp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to ill~minate with a white light the rear registration plat% when such registra- tion plate is required, and render it. legible from a distance of fifty feet to the reare Any tail lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lsm~p for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the hesd