Requisitos de luces traseras para vehículos en Minnesota

Explicación Simple

Todos los vehículos deben tener luces rojas en la parte de atrás que se vean desde lejos. Si un vehículo fue fabricado después de 1960, necesita tener al menos dos luces traseras.

Es como cuando cocinas y necesitas que la luz de la cocina esté encendida para ver lo que estás haciendo. Las luces traseras de un auto son necesarias para que otros conductores vean que estás ahí.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan está conduciendo su coche en la noche y se da cuenta de que una de sus luces traseras no funciona. Si lo para un oficial de tránsito, podría recibir una multa porque su vehículo no cumple con la norma de tener al menos dos luces traseras visibles.

Penalidades

Las multas pueden aplicarse si no se cumplen los requisitos de luces traseras, pero no se especifican detalles en esta sección.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

(a) Every motor vehicle and every vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles must be equipped with at least one tail lamp, exhibiting a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. (b) Every motor vehicle, other than a truck-tractor, and every vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles, registered in this state and manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1960, must be equipped with at least two tail lamps mounted on the rear and on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable. When lighted, the tail lamps must comply with the provisions of this section. (c) An implement of husbandry being towed by a motor vehicle at a speed of not more than 35 miles per hour, displaying a slow-moving vehicle emblem, and complying with section169.55, subdivision 2, paragraph (a), clause (4), is not subject to the requirements of this section. Either such rear lamp or separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any rear lamp or rear lamps, together with any separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamps or auxiliary driving lamps are lighted. On and after January 1, 1960, each new motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, hereafter sold and each such vehicle hereafter operated on a highway, shall carry at the rear either as a part of the rear lamp, or separately, at least two reflectors. The reflectors shall be of a type approved by the commissioner of public safety and shall be mounted as close as is practicable to the extreme edges of the vehicle at a height not more than 60, nor less than 20 inches above the