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 while the vehicle is immobilised on the carriageway outside the urban 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 high‑beam headlights, while driving, both in the urban area and outside it, according to the degree of illumination of the public road;
c) the low‑beam headlights and the fog lights in thick fog;
d) the low‑beam headlights of the motor vehicles escorting military columns or processions, transporting organised groups of people and those towing other vehicles or carrying dangerous goods or products, during the day;
e) the low‑beam headlights 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 indicators for signalling the change of the direction of travel, including when setting the vehicle in motion from standstill.
(2) At night, when two vehicles approaching from opposite directions draw near each other, their drivers are obliged from a distance of at least 200 m to use the low‑beam headlights simultaneously with reducing the speed. When the driver of a motor vehicle approaches a motor vehicle travelling ahead, he is obliged to use the low‑beam headlights from a distance of at least 100 m.
(3) At night or in reduced‑visibility conditions, the drivers of motor vehicles and trams approaching an intersection not controlled by light signals or by traffic police officers are obliged to signal by alternating the low‑beam headlights with the high‑beam headlights 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 headlight and in the rear one position light.
(5) The hazard warning lights are used in the following situations:
a) when the vehicle is involuntarily immobilised on the carriageway;
b) when the vehicle moves very slowly and/or constitutes in itself a danger for the other road users;
c) when the motor vehicle or tram is being towed.
(6) In the situations provided in paragraph (5), the drivers of motor vehicles, trams or mopeds must activate the hazard warning lights, successively, in the order of stopping and if this manoeuvre is required by the blockage of traffic on the direction of travel.
(7) When travelling through a tunnel, the driver of a vehicle is obliged to use the low‑beam headlights.
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