Art. 114.
(1) The drivers of motor vehicles, trams and mopeds are obliged to use their lighting and/or signalling systems as follows:
a) the position lights or parking lights when the vehicle is immobilized on the carriageway outside built-up area, from dusk until dawn, during the day when it rains heavily, snows abundantly or there is thick fog, or in other conditions that reduce visibility on the public road;
b) the low beam or the high beam, while driving, both in the urban area and outside it, according to the degree of illumination of the public road;
c) the low beam and the fog lights in thick fog;
d) the low beam of motor vehicles that accompany military columns or processions, transport organized groups of people and those that tow other vehicles or transport dangerous goods or products, during the day;
e) the low beam when it rains heavily, snows abundantly or in other conditions that reduce visibility on the road;
f) the reversing lights when the vehicle is manoeuvred backwards;
g) the direction indicator lights for signalling the change of direction of travel, including when setting the vehicle in motion from a standstill.
(2) At night, when two vehicles approaching from opposite directions come close, their drivers are obliged that from a distance of at least 200 m to use the low beam together with reduced speed. When the driver of a motor vehicle approaches a motor vehicle that is travelling in front of him, he is obliged to use the low beam from a distance of at least 100 m.
(3) At night or in reduced visibility conditions the drivers of motor vehicles and trams who approach an intersection not controlled by light signals or by traffic police officers, are obliged to signal by alternating the low beam with the high beam if they do not thereby violate the provisions of paragraph (2).
(4) At night or in reduced visibility conditions the motor vehicles or trailers with defects in the lighting and light signalling system cannot be driven or towed without having in operation on the left side, in front one low beam and at the rear one position light.
(5) The hazard warning lights are used in the following situations:
a) when the vehicle is involuntarily immobilized on the carriageway;
b) when the vehicle is moving very slowly and/or constitutes itself a danger for the other road users;
c) when the motor vehicle or the tram is towed.
(6) In the situations provided in paragraph (5), the drivers of motor vehicles, trams or mopeds must turn on the hazard warning lights, successively, in the order of stopping and in case this manoeuvre is required by the blocking of traffic on the direction of travel.
(7) When driving through a tunnel the driver of a vehicle is obliged to use the low beam.
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