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337.1(1 TRAFFIC CODE 36 337.16 NUMBER OF LIGHTS PERMITTED; RED AND FLASHING LIGHTS. (a) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights is also. equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, not more than a total of flue of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when upon a street. (b) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights, or auxiliary driving lights, which projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle. (c) No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any street with any light or device thereon displaying a red light maunted on the front thereof. This subsection does not apply to emergency vehicles, school buses, traffic line stripers; snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, State highway survey vehicles, funeral escort vehicles and similar equipment operated by the Ohio Department of Highways or local authorities. (d) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn; or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking, or passing. This prohibition does not apply to vehicles of the type specified in subsection (e) of this section, disabled vehicles, or machinery required by Section 337.10 to have a flashing red light. (ORC 4513.17; Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42. ) 337.17 FOCUS AND AIM OF HEADLIGHTS. No person shall use any lights mentioned in Sections 337.02 to 337.16,inelusive, upon any motor vehicle, trailer, ar semitrailer unless the lights are equipped; mounted, and adjusted as to focus and aim in accordance with State regulations. (ORC 4513.19) 337.18 MOTOR VEHICLE, MOTORCYCLE AND BICYCLE BRAKES. (a) The following requirements govern as to brake equipment on vehicles: (1) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, when operated upon a street shall be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and hold such motor vehicle, including two separate means of applying the brakes, each of which means shall be effective to apply the brakes to at least two wheels. If these two separate means of applying the brakes are connected in any way, then on motor vehicles manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1942, they shall be so constructed that failure of any one part of the operating mechanism shall not leave the motor vehicle without brakes on at least two.wheela. (Z) Every motorcycle, motor scooter, and bicycle with motor attached, when operated upon a street, shall be equipped with at least one adequate brake which may be operated by hand or by foot. (3) Every trailer or semitrailer, except a pole trailer, of a gross weight of two thousand pounds or more, manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1942, when registered in this State and operated upon the streets shall be equipped with