Acts and Regulations

M-17 - Motor Vehicle Act

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Tail lamps
210(1)Subject to this section, every motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer and pole trailer and any other vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least two tail lamps, mounted one on either side of the rear of the vehicle, that, when lighted as required under this Act, emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of one hundred and fifty metres to the rear.
210(2)Subsection (1) does not apply to an antique vehicle that was originally manufactured with, and is equipped with, one tail lamp mounted on its left, rear side that, when lighted as required under this Act, emits a red light plainly visible from a distance of one hundred and fifty metres to the rear.
210(3)Every tail lamp to which subsection (1) or (2) applies shall be located at a height of not more than one hundred and eighty-three centimetres and not less than thirty-eight centimetres.
210(4)Every vehicle to which subsection (1) or (2) applies shall be equipped with either a tail lamp or a separate lamp so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of fifteen metres to the rear.
210(5)Only the tail lamps, tail lamp or separate lamp, as the case may be, on the rearmost vehicle in a train of vehicles is required to meet the visibility requirements under subsection (1) or (2) or to meet the requirements of subsection (4).
210(6)Every tail lamp and every separate lamp for illuminating the rear registration plate shall be wired so that they are lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary driving lamps of the vehicle on which they are mounted are lighted.
1955, c.13, s.189; 1977, c.M-11.1, s.17; 1996, c.43, s.12; 1998, c.30, s.13