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 parking lights during the immobilization of the vehicle on the carriageway outside the urban area, from nightfall 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 dipped headlights or main beam, while driving, both in the urban area and outside it, according to the degree of illumination of the public road;
c) the dipped headlights and the fog lights in dense fog;
d) the dipped headlights of the motor vehicles that accompany military convoys or processions, transport organized groups of persons and those that tow other vehicles or transport dangerous goods or products, during the day;
e) the dipped 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 maneuvered backwards;
g) the direction indicators for signalling the change of direction of travel, including when putting the vehicle in motion from standing.
(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 dipped headlights simultaneously with the reduction of the speed. When the driver of a motor vehicle approaches a motor vehicle that travels in front of it, the driver is obliged to use the dipped headlights from a distance of at least 100 m.
(3) At night or in reduced visibility conditions the drivers of motor vehicles and trams that approach an intersection not controlled by light signals or by traffic police officers are obliged to signal by the alternating use of the dipped headlights with the main beam if they do not thus 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 luminous signalling system cannot be driven or towed without having in function on the left side, in front one dipped headlight 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 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 function the hazard warning lights, successively, in the order of stopping and in the situation in which this maneuver is required by the blocking of the traffic on the direction of travel.
(7) When driving through a tunnel the driver of the vehicle is obliged to use the dipped headlights.
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