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Using lights on vehicles that are stopped

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Schedule 3Australian Road Rules
Part 13Lights and warning devices
Division 1Lights on vehicles (except bicycles, animals and animal-drawn vehicles)

220 Using lights on vehicles that are stopped

(1)

A driver must not stop on a road at night unless:

(a) if the driver's vehicle is 2.2 metres wide, or wider – the clearance and side marker lights fitted to the vehicle are operating effectively and are clearly visible; or

(b) in any other case – the parking lights fitted to the driver's vehicle are operating effectively and are clearly visible.

Offence provision.

Note

Driver's vehicle and night are defined in the dictionary.

(2) This rule does not apply to a driver if the driver stops on a length of road, or in an area, with street lighting and the driver's vehicle is visible for at least 200 metres in all directions from the vehicle.

Note

Length of road is defined in the dictionary.

(3) In subrule (1), a reference to a kind of light fitted to a vehicle is a reference to a light of that kind required to be fitted to the vehicle under another law of this jurisdiction.

(4)

In this rule:

road does not include a road-related area, but includes any shoulder of the road.

Note

Road-related area is defined in rule 13, and shoulder is defined in rule 12.

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