Delaware Code § 21-4351

Lighting equipment on motor-driven cycles
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The head lamp or head lamps upon every motor-driven cycle may be of the single beam type but in either event shall comply with
the requirements and limitations as follows:
(1) Every such head lamp or head lamps on a motor-driven cycle shall be of sufficient intensity to reveal a person or a vehicle at a
distance of not less than 100 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at any speed less than 25 miles per hour, and at a distance

of not less than 200 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed of 25 or more miles per hour, and at a distance of not less
than 300 feet when the motor-driven cycle is operated at a speed of 35 or more miles per hour;
(2) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a multiple beam head lamp or head lamps the upper beam shall meet the
minimum requirements set forth above and shall not exceed the limitations set forth in § 4349(1) of this title, and the lowermost beam
shall meet the requirements applicable to a lowermost distribution of light as set forth in § 4349 of this title;
(3) In the event the motor-driven cycle is equipped with a single beam lamp or lamps, such lamps shall be so aimed that when the
vehicle is loaded none of the high intensity portion of light, at a distance of 25 feet ahead, shall project higher than the level of the
center of the lamp from which it comes.

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