Conn. Gen. Stat. § 14-96p

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 14-96p - Color of lights. Flashing lights. Intensity of lights

(a) Except as provided in section 14-96q, no person shall display upon any motor vehicle or equipment:

(1) Any light visible from the front of such motor vehicle or equipment other than white, yellow or amber;

(2) any light visible from the rear of such motor vehicle or equipment other than red, yellow, amber or white; or

(3) any red light visible from directly in front of the center of such motor vehicle or equipment. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, a taxicab shall display the dome light or lights required by regulations that have been adopted by the Commissioner of Transportation under the authority of section 13b-96.

(b) Except as provided in section 14-96q, flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except:

(1) Red and yellow lights when used for the purpose of receiving or discharging students on school buses;

(2) white lights that are located on the top rear of school buses;

(3) when such lights are used as a means for indicating a right or left turn;

(4) when such lights are used in any manner to indicate (A) a disabled vehicle that is stopped in a hazardous location on the highway, or in close proximity thereto, (B) a motor vehicle that is unable to maintain the minimum speed of forty miles per hour on a limited access divided highway because of the grade of such highway, (C) a motor vehicle that is operating at such slow speed as to obstruct or endanger following traffic on any highway, or (D) a student transportation vehicle, as defined in section 14-212, accommodating fifteen or fewer students with disabilities that is receiving or discharging such students; or

(5) red lights when used by a frozen dessert truck pursuant to section 14-283f. For the purposes of this subsection, "students with disabilities" means students who have intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, mental disability, visual impairment, blindness, deafness, speech impairment or orthopedic impairment, who are hard of hearing or who have another health impairment who, by reason thereof, require special education and related services, and "frozen dessert truck" has the same meaning as provided in section 14-283c.

(c) Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than head lamps, spot lamps or auxiliary driving lamps, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power shall be so directed that no part of the beam strikes the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle.

(d) Use of lights except as authorized by this section shall be an infraction.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 14-96p

(1967, P.A. 834, S. 17, 18; 1969, P.A. 710; P.A. 73-544, S. 23; P.A. 74-99, S. 1, 3; P.A. 75-577, S. 42, 126; P.A. 78-156, S. 2; P.A. 80-466, S. 16, 25; P.A. 83-41; 83-412, S. 3, 5; P.A. 85-153; 85-217, S. 1; P.A. 87-41, S. 1; P.A. 93-307, S. 4, 34; P.A. 94-189, S. 7; P.A. 96-167, S. 29; P.A. 99-150, S. 1; P.A. 01-192, S. 1; P.A. 04-161, S. 1; P.A. 05-218, S. 9; 05-288, S. 234; P.A. 11-213, S. 26; P.A. 13-139, S. 18; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 213; P.A. 17-202, S. 95.)

Amended by P.A. 21-0020,S. 9 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2021.

Amended by P.A. 17-0202, S. 95 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2017.

Amended by P.A. 15-0005, S. 213 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Special Session, eff. 7/6/2015.