Colorado Code § 42-4-218

Single-beam road-lighting equipment
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(1) Head lamps arranged to provide
a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on
motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to July 15, 1936, in lieu of multiple-beam road-
lighting equipment specified in section 42-4-216 if the single distribution of light complies with
the following requirements and limitations:
(a) The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the
high-intensity portion of the light shall, at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead, project higher
than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes and in
no case higher than forty-two inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of
seventy-five feet ahead.
(b) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least
two hundred feet.
(2) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B traffic
infraction.

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