Art. 114.
(1) The drivers of motor vehicles, trams and mopeds are obliged to use the lighting and/or signalling installations of these, as follows:
a) the position lights or waiting lights during the immobilization of the vehicle on the carriageway outside the urban area, from dusk until dawn, during the day when it rains heavily, snows abundantly or there is dense fog, or in other conditions that reduce visibility on the public road;
b) the low beam or the high beam lights, in motion, both in the urban area and outside it, according to the degree of illumination of the public road;
c) the low beam lights and the fog lights in dense fog;
d) the low beam lights of the motor vehicles that accompany military columns or processions, transport organized groups of persons and those that tow other vehicles or that transport dangerous goods or products, during the day;
e) the low beam lights when it rains heavily, snows abundantly or in other conditions that reduce visibility on the road;
f) the reverse lights when the vehicle is maneuvered backwards;
g) the direction indicators for signalling the change of the direction of travel, including when putting the vehicle in motion from standstill.
(2) At night, when two vehicles that move in compliance with the traffic rules approach from opposite directions, their drivers are obliged that from a distance of at least 200 m they use the low beam lights simultaneously with the reduction of the speed. When the driver of a motor vehicle approaches a motor vehicle that moves in front of him, he is obliged to use the low beam lights from a distance of at least 100 m.
(3) At night or in conditions of reduced visibility the drivers of motor vehicles and trams who approach an intersection not directed by light signals or by traffic police officers are obliged to signal by using alternately the low beam lights with the high beam lights if they do not thus violate the provisions of paragraph (2).
(4) At night or in conditions of reduced visibility the motor vehicles or trailers with malfunctions 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 light and in the back 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 moves very slowly and/or constitutes itself a danger for the other traffic participants;
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 put into operation the hazard warning lights, successively, in the order of stopping and in the event that this maneuver is required by the blockage of the traffic on the direction of travel.
(7) When travelling through a tunnel the driver of a vehicle is obliged to use the low beam lights.
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