CALIFORNIA HID LED KENSUN

Ø The light output from each of the lamps shall not exceed 2513 lumens.
Ø Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a pulsing system to indicate deceleration in which an amber light is center mounted on the rear of a vehicle.
Ø Flashing lights are permitted on vehicles to indicate an intention to turn right or left, when disabled or parked off the road, to warn other motorists of accidents or hazards on a roadway.
Ø At least two headlights upon every vehicle shall be mounted at a height of not less 22 nor more than 54 inches, the height of tail lights and at least two spot lights to be mounted is not specified. Maximum two fog lights, two auxiliary passing lights and two auxiliary driving lights shall be mounted at a height of 12-30 inches, 24-42 inches, 16-42 inches respectively.

LIGHTING LAWS IN CALIFORNIA
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Article 7. Flashing And Colored Lights
VEHICLE CODE SECTION 25250-25282
25250.
Flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles except as otherwise permitted.
25251.
(a) Flashing lights are permitted on vehicles as follows:
1) To indicate an intention to turn or move to the right or left upon a roadway, turn signal lamps and turn signal exterior pilot indicator lamps and side lamps permitted under Section 25106 may be flashed on the side of a vehicle toward which the turn or movement is to be made.
2) When disabled or parked off the roadway but within 10 feet of the roadway, or when approaching, stopped at, or departing from, a railroad grade crossing, turn signal lamps may be flashed as warning lights if the front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously.
3) To warn other motorists of accidents or hazards on a roadway, turn signal lamps may be flashed as warning lights while the vehicle is approaching, overtaking, or passing the accident or hazard on the roadway if the front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously.
4) For use on authorized emergency vehicles.
5) To warn other motorists of a funeral procession, turn signal lamps may be flashed as warning lights on all vehicles actually engaged in a funeral procession, if the front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously.
(b) Turn signal lamps shall be flashed as warning lights whenever a vehicle is disabled upon the roadway and the vehicle is equipped with a device to automatically activate the front turn signal lamps at each side to flash simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side to flash simultaneously, if the device and the turn signal lamps were not rendered inoperative by the event which caused the vehicle to be disabled.
(c) Side lamps permitted under Section 25106 and used in conjunction with turn signal lamps may be flashed with the turn signal lamps as part of the warning lightsystem, as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a).
(d) Required or permitted lamps on a trailer or semitrailer may flash when the trailer or semitrailer has broken away from the towing vehicle and the connection between thevehicles is broken.
(e) Hazard warning lights, as permitted by paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a) may be flashed in a repeating series of short and long flashes when the driver is in need of help.

25251.1.
Any implement of husbandry displaying a slow moving vehicle emblem, as defined in Section 24615, and being operated at a speed of 25 miles per hour or less, may be equipped with double-faced amber turn signals which may be flashed simultaneously as warning lights.
25251.2.
Any motorcycle may be equipped with a means of modulating the upper beam of the headlamp between a high and a lower brightness at a rate of 200 to 280 flashes per minute. Such headlamps shall not be so modulated during darkness.
25251.3.
No civil liability shall attach to any person for the use or nonuse of turn signal lamps in the manner permitted by paragraph (3) or (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 25251, except for such civil liability as would attach for the use or nonuse of any other device required by this article or Article 8 (commencing with Section 25300).
25251.4.
Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a theft alarm system which flashes any of the lights required or permitted on the motor vehicle and which operates as specified in Article 13 (commencing with Section 28085) of Chapter 5 of this division.
25251.5.
(a) Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a system in which an amber light is center mounted on the rear of a vehicle to communicate a component of deceleration of the vehicle, and which light pulses in a controlled fashion at a rate which varies exponentially with a component of deceleration.
(b) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with two amber lamps on the rear of thevehicle which operate simultaneously with not more than four flashes within four seconds after the accelerator pedal is in the deceleration position and which are not lighted at any other time. The lamps shall be mounted at the same height, with one lamp located on each side of the vertical centerline of the vehicle, not higher than the bottom of the rear window, or if the vehicle has no rear window, not higher than 60 inches. The light output from each of the lamps shall not exceed 200 candlepower at any angle horizontal or above. The amber lamps may be used either separately or in combination with another lamp.
(c) Any stoplamp or supplemental stoplamp required or permitted by Section 24603 may be equipped so as to flash not more than four times within the first four seconds after actuation by application of the brakes. 25252. Every authorized emergency vehicle shall be equipped with at least one steady burning red warning lamp visible from at least 1,000 feet to the front of the vehicle to be used as provided in this code. In addition, authorized emergency vehicles may display revolving, flashing, or steady red warning lights to the front, sides or rear of the vehicles.

COLORS RESTRICTIONS

25251.5.
(a) Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a system in which an amber light is center mounted on the rear of a vehicle to communicate a component of deceleration of the vehicle, and which light pulses in a controlled fashion at a rate which varies exponentially with a component of deceleration.

EQUIPMENT RESTRICTED

"Turn signal lamps shall be flashed as warning lights whenever a vehicle is disabled upon the roadway and the vehicle is equipped with a device to automatically activate the front turn signal lamps at each side to flash simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side to flash simultaneously, if the device and the turn signal lamps were not rendered inoperative by the event which caused the vehicle to be disabled."
OTHER RULES

HEADLIGHTS: 2 MINIMUM
§     minimum height: 24 inches
§     maximum height: 54 inches
TAIL LIGHTS: REQUIRED
§     minimum height: n/a
§     maximum height: n/a
SPOT LIGHTS: 2 MAXIMUM
§     minimum height: n/a
§     maximum height: n/a
FOG LIGHTS: 2 MAXIMUM
§     minimum height: 12 inches
§     maximum height: 30 inches
AUXILIARY PASSING LIGHTS 2 MAXIMUM
§     minimum height: 24 inches
§     maximum height: 42 inches
AUXILIARY DRIVING LIGHTS: 2 MAXIMUM
§     minimum height: 16 inches
§     maximum height: 42 inches
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