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33 Safety and Equipment 337 05 337.02 LIGHTED LIGHTS; MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES AND HEIGHTS. (a) Every vehicle upon a street or highway during the time from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, and at any other time when there is not sufficient natural light to render discernible persons, vehicles, and substantial objects on the street at a distance of five hundred feet ahead, shall display lighted lights and illuminating devices as required by this chapter for different classes of vehicles . No motor vehicle, during such times, shall be operated upon a street or highway using only parking lights as illumination. (b) Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to the distance from which certain lights and devices shall render objects visible, or within which such lights or devices shall be visible, such distance shall be measured upon a straight level unlighted street under normal atmospheric .conditions unless a different condition is expressly stated. (c) Whenever in such sections a requirement is declared as to the mounted height of lights or devices, it shall mean from the center of such light or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands . (ORC 4513.03) 337.03 HEADLIGHTS ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTORCYCLES. (a) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, shall be equipped with at least two headlights with at least one near each side of the front of the motor vehicle. ~,. (b) Every motorcycle shall be equipped with at least one and not more than two head- lights . (ORC 4513.04 ; Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42. ) 337.04 TAIL LIGHT; ILLUMINATION OF REAR LICENSE PLATE. (a) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer or vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least one tail light mounted on the rear which, when lighted, shall emit a red light visible from a distance of five hun- dred feet to the rear, provided that in the case of a train of vehicles only the tail light on the rearmost vehicle need be visible from the distance specified. (b) Either a tail light or a separate light shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate, when such registration plate is required, and render it legible from a distance of fifty feet to the rear. Any tail light, together with any separate light for fllumina.ting the rear registration plate, shall be so e wired as to be lighted whenever the headlights ox auxiliary driving lights are lighted, except where separate lighting systems are provided for trailers for the purpose of illuminating such registration plate. (ORC 4513.05; Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42.) 337.05 REAR RED REFLECTORS. Every new motor vehicle sold after September 6, 1941, and operated ~ a street, ocher than vehicles of the type mentioned in Section 337.06 or a commercial tractor to which a trailer or semitrailer is attached shall carry at the rear, either as a part of the tail lights or separately, two red reflectors of such size and characteristics and so maintained as to be visible at night from all distances within three hundred feet to fifty feet from such vehicle. (ORC 4513.06; Ord. 613. Passed ?-7-42.)