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SECTION 1275
Lamps and other equipment
Vehicle & Traffic (VAT) CHAPTER 71, TITLE 7, ARTICLE 34-C
§ 1275. Lamps and other equipment. 1. Every electric personal
assistive mobility device when in use during the period from one-half
hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise shall be equipped with
a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible during hours
of darkness from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front
and with a red light visible to the rear for three hundred feet. At
least one of these lights shall be visible for two hundred feet from
each side.

2. No person shall operate an electric personal assistive mobility
device unless it is equipped with a bell or other device capable of
giving a signal audible for a distance of at least one hundred feet,
except that such device shall not be equipped with nor shall any person
use upon such device any siren or whistle.

3. Every electric personal assistive mobility device shall be equipped
with a system that enables the operator to bring the device to a
controlled stop.