Tex. Transp. Code § 547.381 · Subchapter H. LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
OBSTRUCTED LIGHTS ON COMBINATION VEHICLES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A motor vehicle when operated in combination with another vehicle is not required to display a lighted lamp, other than a taillamp, if the lamp is obscured because of its location by another vehicle in the combination of vehicles.
(b) Subsection (a) is not an exception for the lighting as provided by this chapter of:
(1) front clearance lamps on the frontmost vehicle in the combination; or
(2) rear lamps on the rearmost vehicle in the combination.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.547.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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