North Dakota Code § 39-21-22

Single-beam road-lighting equipment
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Headlamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light are permitted on motor vehicles 
manufactured and sold prior to one year after July 1, 1963, in lieu of multiple -beam road-lighting 
equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following 
requirements and limitations:
1. The headlamps must 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 [7.62 meters] 
ahead project higher than a level of five inches [12.7 centimeters] below the level of 
the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than forty -two 
inches [106.68 centimeters] above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance 
of seventy-five feet [22.86 meters] ahead.
2. The intensity must be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 
two hundred feet [60.96 meters].

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