California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 2 - Department of the California Highway Patrol
Chapter 2 - Lighting Equipment
Article 16 - Reserve Lighting and Outage Indicating Systems
Section 777 - Installation Requirements
Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 777
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
Reserve lighting and outage indicating systems shall meet the following installation requirements:
(a) Outage Indicator Location. Outage indicator lamps shall be mounted where they are clearly visible to the driver.
(b) Connection to Vehicle Lighting System. After market installation and connection of the device to the vehicle lighting system shall be as follows:
(1) Headlamp Section. The headlamp section
shall be connected into the headlamp upper and lower beam circuits at the beam
changing switch.
(2) Rear Lighting
Section. The taillamp element of the rear lighting section shall be
series-connected in the taillamp circuit between the switch and the lamps, and
the stoplamp element shall be series-connected in the stoplamp circuit
immediately following the stoplamp switch.
Note: Authority cited: Section 26103, Vehicle Code. Reference: Sections 24012 and 26103, Vehicle Code.
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