N.C.P.I.—Motor Vehicle 215.10

The motor vehicle law provides that every vehicle operated upon a

highway [during the period from sunset to sunrise]2 [at any time when

there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible a person on the

highway at a distance of 400 feet ahead]3 [when the lack of visibility

through the windshield requires the windshield wipers to be activated and

the vehicle is within a school zone during the regular school hours of the

school year]4 shall be equipped with lighted [headlights] [taillights].5

[Headlights. Every motor vehicle must have at least two

headlights, with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle,

each in good operating condition and so constructed, arranged and

adjusted as, under normal atmospheric conditions on a level road, to

produce a driving light sufficient to render clearly discernible a person 200

feet ahead.]6

[Taillights. All originally equipped taillights, or their equivalent, on

a [motor vehicle] [trailer attached to a motor vehicle] [semi-trailer

attached to a motor vehicle] must be in good working order and exhibit a

red light plainly visible under normal atmospheric conditions from 500

feet to the rear of the vehicle.7

At any of the times specified, operating a vehicle on a highway

without such lights is negligence within itself.8