Section 56-5-4790 - Single-beam road-lighting equipmentHead lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to April 29, 1939 in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified, if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:
(1) The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead project higher than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes and in no case higher than forty-two inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead; and(2) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred feet.1949 (46) 466; 1952 Code Section 46-549; 1962 Code Section 46-549.