Wisconsin Headlights Law
WISCONSIN
· Whenever a vehicle is equipped with headlights as well as any adverse weather lights, spotlights or auxiliary lightsprojecting a beam of intensity greater than 3770 lumens, not more than a total of 4 in front of the vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when on a highway.
· Your headlights can only be white or amber in color and taillights must be red. Blue lights and flashing lights are prohibited.
· A vehicle shall be equipped with at least two headlights and not more than two fog lights and spotlights.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
(4) Back-up lamps.
(a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than 2 back-up lamps which shall be so directed as to project a white or amber light illuminating the roadway to the rear of such vehicle for a distance not to exceed 75 feet.
(b) No lighted back-up lamp shall be displayed on any vehicle upon a highway except when such vehicle is about to be or is being driven backward.
Whenever a back-up lamp is lighted during hours of darkness, the tail lamp or tail lamps on the vehicle displaying such lighted back-up lamp also shall be lighted.
(5) Identification lamps on taxicabs and buses. No person shall operate a motor vehicle regularly used for transporting passengers for hire displaying any lighting device for identification purposes other than a single illuminated sign or lighted lamp mounted above the top line of the windshield, colored white, amber or green. Such illuminated sign orlamp shall be so constructed as to emit a steady or flashing non-glaring light.
COLORS RESTRICTIONS
(11) Flashing warning lamps.
(a) Any vehicle may be equipped with lamps which may be used for the purpose of warning the operators of othervehicles of the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of unusual care in approaching, overtaking or passing, and when so equipped may display such warning in addition to any other warning signals required by this section. The lamps used to display such warning to the front shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and shall display simultaneously flashing white or amber lights, or any shade of color between white and amber. The lamps used to display such warning to the rear shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and shall show simultaneously flashing amber or red lights, or any shade of color between amber and red. These warning lights shall be visible from a distance of not less than 500 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night. Directional signals meeting the requirements of this chapter shall be used or lampsmeeting these requirements, mounted so as to comply with turn signal installation.
EQUIPMENT RESTRICTED
Terms Used in Wisconsin Statutes 347.26
(2) Spotlamps
(b) No spotlamp shall be used as a substitute for headlamps. No spotlamp shall be used as an auxiliary driving light on any motor vehicle except when such spotlamp is set or adjusted so that the rays of light are projected directly upon the road surface at a distance not exceeding 150 feet directly in front of the vehicle and to the right of the center of the traveled roadway. No spotlamp shall project any glaring light into the eyes of an approaching driver.
(3) Adverse weather lamps.
(a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than 2 adverse weather lamps which shall be mounted on the front of the vehicle below the level of the centers of the headlamps.
(b) Adverse weather lamps shall not be used in lieu of headlamps unless absolutely necessary in case of rain, snow, dust or fog and then only when a vehicle is equipped with 2 adverse weather lamps mounted on opposite sides of the front of the vehicle and when both such adverse weather lamps are lighted. Whenever any vehicle is equipped with only one adverse weather lamp, both headlamps of such vehicle shall be lighted at all times when such adverse weather lamp islighted.
(4) Back-up lamps.
(a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than 2 back-up lamps which shall be so directed as to project a white or amber light illuminating the roadway to the rear of such vehicle for a distance not to exceed 75 feet.
(b) No lighted back-up lamp shall be displayed on any vehicle upon a highway except when such vehicle is about to be or is being driven backward. Whenever a back-up lamp is lighted during hours of darkness, the tail lamp or tail lampson the vehicle displaying such lighted back-up lamp also shall be lighted.
(5) Identification lamps on taxicabs and buses. No person shall operate a motor vehicle regularly used for transporting passengers for hire displaying any lighting device for identification purposes other than a single illuminated sign orlighted lamp mounted above the top line of the windshield, colored white, amber or green. Such illuminated sign orlamp shall be so constructed as to emit a steady or flashing non-glaring light.
OTHER RULES
HEADLIGHTS: 2 MINIMUM
§ minimum height: 22 inches
§ maximum height: 44 inches
TAIL LIGHTS: 1 MINIMUM
§ minimum height: 20 inches
§ maximum height: 60 inches
SPOT LIGHTS: 1 MAXIMUM
§ minimum height: Height n/a
§ maximum height: Height n/a
FOG LIGHTS: 2 MAXIMUM
§ minimum height: 12 inches
§ maximum height: 30 inches
§ minimum height: 24 inches
§ maximum height: 42 inches
§ minimum height: 16 inches
§ maximum height: 42 inches
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