As Amended by House Committee          

---

Session of 2000
          HOUSE BILL No. 2258           By Committee on Transportation           2-4          

---

10             AN  ACT regulating traffic; concerning auxiliary driving lamps and fog
11             lamps; amending K.S.A. 8-1725 and repealing the existing section.
12      
13       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14             Section  1. K.S.A. 8-1725 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-
15       1725. When a motor vehicle is being operated on a highway or shoulder
16       adjacent thereto during the times specified in K.S.A. 8-1703, and amend-
17       ments thereto, the driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite
18       beam, directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons
19       and vehicles at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, subject to the
20       following requirements and limitations:
21             (a) When the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle
22       within 500 feet, such driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite
23       beam, so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of
24       the oncoming driver. The lowermost distribution of light, or composite
25       beam, specified in subsection (a)(2) of K.S.A. 8-1724, and amendments
26       thereto, or subsection (b)(2) of K.S.A. 8-1805, and amendments thereto,
27       shall be dimmed to avoid glare at all times, regardless of road contour
28       and loading.
29             (b) When the driver of a vehicle approaches another vehicle from the
30       rear, within 300 feet, except when engaged in the act of overtaking and
31       passing, such driver shall use a distribution of light permissible under this
32       article other than the uppermost distribution of light specified in subsec-
33       tion (a)(1) of K.S.A. 8-1724, and amendments thereto, or subsection
34       (b)(1) of K.S.A. 8-1805, and amendments thereto.
35             (c) (1) When the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle
36       within 500 feet, or approaches another vehicle from the rear within 300
37       feet, such driver shall turn off any auxiliary driving lamps or fog lamps.
38             (2) From and after the effective date of this act and prior to
39       July 1, 2001, a law enforcement officer shall issue a warning cita-
40       tion to anyone violating the provisions of this subsection.
41             (c) (d) The requirements in subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to
42       authorized emergency vehicles displaying alternately flashing or simul-
43       taneously flashing head lamps as provided in K.S.A. 8-1720, and amend-

2
  1       ments thereto. 
  2       Sec.  2. K.S.A. 8-1725 is hereby repealed.
  3        Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
  4       publication in the statute book.