California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 2 - Department of the California Highway Patrol
Chapter 2 - Lighting Equipment
Article 1 - Lighting Equipment Subject to Regulation
Section 621 - Federally Regulated Equipment

Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 621
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

Lighting equipment for which the department is authorized to establish requirements and for which there is a mandatory Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) or Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission Regulation (CPSC) shall comply with the requirements in that standard or regulation. This provision applies not only to federally required original equipment devices and their replacements but also to additional devices of the same type that are not required by those standards but are regulated by the Vehicle Code. Such equipment shall be exempt from the requirements of this subchapter except for Section 625 of this Article and all of Articles 6 and 7. This provision applies to the following items:

Type of Equipment

CPSC No.

FMVSS No.

Bicycle reflectors, reflectorized pedals and reflectorized tires...........................

Part 1512

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Clearance lamps...........................

.........................108

Emergency reflex reflectors...........................

.........................125

Hazard warning flashers...........................

.........................108

Hazard warning switches...........................

.........................108

Headlamps...........................

.........................108

Licence plate lamps...........................

.........................108

Reflex reflectors...........................

.........................108

School bus warning lamp systems...........................

.........................108

Semiautomatic headlamp beam switching devices...........................

.........................108

Sidemarker lamps...........................

.........................108

Stop lamps...........................

.........................108

Taillamps...........................

.........................108

Turn signal flashers...........................

.........................108

Turn signal lamps...........................

.........................108

1. Amendment of first paragraph filed 2-8-2008; operative 3-9-2008 (Register 2008, No. 6).

Note: Authority cited: Section 26103, Vehicle Code. Reference: Sections 21201, 21201.5, 24006, 24012, 24411, 24603, 24607, 25102.5, 25106, 25252.5, 26103, and 26104, Vehicle Code.

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