North Dakota Code § 39-27-17.1

Headlamps on motorcycles
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1. The headlamp or headlamps upon every motor -driven cycle may be of the 
single-beam or multiple-beam type.
2. Every headlamp or headlamps on a motor -driven cycle must be of sufficient intensity 
to reveal a person or a vehicle at a distance of not less than one hundred feet [30.48 
meters] when the motor -driven cycle is operated at any speed less than twenty -five 
miles [40.23 kilometers] per hour and at a distance of not less than two hundred feet 
[60.96 meters] when the motor -driven cycle is operated at a speed of twenty -five or 
more miles [40.23 or more kilometers] per hour, and at a distance of not less than 
three hundred feet [91.44 meters] when the motor -driven cycle is operated at a speed 
of thirty-five miles [56.33 kilometers] per hour.
3. In the event the motor -driven cycle is equipped with a multiple -beam headlamp or 
headlamps the upper beam must meet the minimum requirements set forth above and 
may not exceed the limitations set forth in subsection 1 of section 39 -21-20 and the 
lowermost beam must meet the requirements applicable to a lowermost distribution of 
light as set forth in subsection 2 of section 39-21-20.
4. In the event the motor -driven cycle is equipped with a single -beam lamp or lamps the 
lamp or lamps must be so aimed that when the vehicle is loaded none of the 
high-intensity portion of light, at a distance of twenty -five feet [7.62 meters] ahead, 
projects higher than the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes.

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