Art. 114.
(1) The drivers of motor vehicles, trams and mopeds are obliged to use the lighting and/or signalling systems thereof, as follows:
a) the position lights or the parking 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 lighting of the public road;
c) the low beam lights and the fog lights in conditions of dense fog;
d) the low beam lights of the motor vehicles that accompany military columns or corteges, transport organized groups of people 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 lights for moving in reverse when the vehicle is manoeuvred backwards;
g) the direction indicator lights for signalling the change of direction of travel, including when putting the vehicle in motion from standstill.
(2) At night, when two vehicles approaching from opposite directions get close, the drivers thereof are obliged from a distance of at least 200 m to use the low beam lights combined with reducing speed. When the driver of a motor vehicle approaches a motor vehicle travelling in front, 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 controlled by light signals or by traffic police officers, are obliged to signal by alternating 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 of 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 participants in traffic;
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 manoeuvre is required by the blocking 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 lights.
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