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Quite illegal. However the headlights drown them out so you don't have anything to worry about unless you decide for some reason to drive around with your parking lights on....
I have a set myself and have never had any problems
I have a set myself and have never had any problems
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Originally Posted by Nephi
Sure is, anything blue for that matter...for the exterior of the car of course...
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In tennessee , as well as in Va , under car lights cannot be ON while driving . Also , blue parking lights are illegal , flashing or not . They cannot be on regardless of whether they flash or not . Unless , in Tennessee , blue lights are not ever used on police vehicles .
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Originally Posted by falkor
In tennessee , as well as in Va , under car lights cannot be ON while driving . Also , blue parking lights are illegal , flashing or not . They cannot be on regardless of whether they flash or not . Unless , in Tennessee , blue lights are not ever used on police vehicles .
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Here's the Tenn. State MV code pertaining to such..I don't see any mention of blue parking lights even being mentioned let alone being illegal.
55-9-402. Lights required on motor vehicles — Exceptions — Regulations as to color, type and visibility distance. —
(a) (1) Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, road roller, road machinery or farm tractor shall be equipped with at least two (2) and not more than four (4) headlights, with at least one (1) on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. No nonemergency vehicle shall operate or install emergency flashing light systems, such as strobe, wig-wag, or other flashing lights within the headlight assembly or grill area of the vehicle; provided, however, that a school bus may operate a flashing, wig-wag lighting system within the headlight assembly of the vehicle when the vehicle's visual stop signs are actuated for receiving or discharging school children.
(2) Auxiliary road lighting lamps may be used, but not more than two (2) of such lamps shall be lighted at any one (1) time in addition to the two (2) required headlights.
(3) No spotlight or auxiliary lamp shall be so aimed upon approaching another vehicle that any part of the high intensity portion of the beam therefrom is directed beyond the left side of the motor vehicle upon which the spotlight or auxiliary lamp is mounted, nor more than one hundred feet (100") ahead of such motor vehicle.
(b) (1) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with two (2) red tail lamps and two (2) red stoplights on the rear of such vehicle, and one (1) tail lamp and one (1) stoplight shall be on each side, except that passenger cars manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1939, trucks manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1968, and motorcycles and motor-driven cycles shall have at least one (1) red tail lamp and one (1) red stoplight. No non-emergency vehicle shall operate or install emergency flashing light systems such as strobe, wig-wag, or other flashing lights in tail light lamp, stoplight area, or factory installed emergency flasher and backup light area; provided, however, that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply to the utilization of a continuously flashing light system. For the purposes of this part, “continuously flashing light system” means a brake light system in which the brake lamp pulses rapidly for no more than five (5) seconds when the brake is applied, and then converts to a continuous light as a normal brake lamp until such time as the brake is released.
(2) The stoplight shall be so arranged as to be actuated by the application of the service or foot brake and shall be capable of being seen and distinguished from a distance of one hundred feet (100") to the rear of a motor vehicle in normal daylight, but shall not project a glaring or dazzling light.
(3) The stoplight may be incorporated with the tail lamp.
(4) Motor vehicle taillight lamps may operate as following:
(A) A white backup light operates when the motor vehicle is in reverse;
(B) When the driver is in a panic stop condition going forward, the backup lamp pulses or flashes red; and
(C) Upon normal stops of the motor vehicle, there is no action by the backup light.
(c) Each lamp and stoplight required in this section shall be in good condition and operational.
(d) (1) No vehicle operated in this state shall be equipped with any flashing red or white light or any combination of red or white lights which displays to the front of such vehicle except school buses, a passenger motor vehicle operated by a rural mail carrier of the United States postal service while performing the duties of a rural mail carrier, authorized law enforcement vehicles only when used in combination with a flashing blue light, and emergency vehicles used in firefighting, including ambulances, emergency vehicles used in firefighting which are owned or operated by the division of forestry, firefighting vehicles, rescue vehicles, privately owned vehicles of regular or volunteer firefighters certified in § 55-9-201(c), or other emergency vehicles used in firefighting owned, operated, or subsidized by the governing body of any county or municipality.
(2) Any emergency rescue vehicle owned, titled and operated by a state chartered rescue squad, a member of the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads, privately owned vehicles of regular or volunteer firefighters certified in § 55-9-201(c), and marked with lettering at least three inches (3²) in size and displayed on the left and right sides of the vehicle designating it an “Emergency Rescue Vehicle,” any authorized civil defense emergency vehicle displaying the appropriate civil defense agency markings of at least three inches (3²), and any ambulance or vehicle equipped to provide emergency medical services properly licensed as required in the state of Tennessee and displaying the proper markings, shall also be authorized to be lighted in one (1) or more of the following manners:
(A) A red or red/white visibar type with public address system;
(B) A red or red/white oscillating type light; and
(C) Blinking red or red/white lights, front and rear.
(3) Any vehicle, other than a school bus, a passenger motor vehicle operated by a rural mail carrier of the United States postal service while performing the duties of a rural mail carrier or an emergency vehicle authorized by this section to display flashing red or red/white lights, or authorized law enforcement vehicles using red, white, and blue lights in combination, that displays any such lights shall be considered in violation of this subsection (d).
(e) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, nothing in this section shall prohibit a highway maintenance or utility vehicle, or any other type vehicle or equipment participating, in any fashion, with highway or utility construction, maintenance, or inspection, from operating a white, amber, or white and amber light system on any location on such vehicle or equipment, other than in the taillight lamp, stoplight area, or factory installed emergency flasher and backup light area, if such light system is a strobe, flashing, oscillating, or revolving system, while the vehicle or equipment is parked upon, entering or leaving any highway or utility construction, maintenance, repair or inspection site.
(2) As used in this subsection (e), “utility” means any person, municipality, county, metropolitan government, cooperative, board, commission, district, or any entity created or authorized by public act, private act, or general law to provide electricity, natural gas, water, waste water services, telephone service, or any combination thereof, for sale to consumers in any particular service area.
(3) As used in subdivision (e)(2), “cooperative” means any cooperative providing utility services including, but not limited to, electric or telephone services, or both.
(4) Nothing in this subsection (e) imposes any duty or obligation to install or utilize the lighting systems allowed in this section.
(f) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
[Acts 1931, ch. 82, § 15; 1937, ch. 245, § 5; 1941, ch. 121, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 2700.16 (Williams, § 2695); Acts 1957, ch. 51, § 1; 1969, ch. 40, § 1; 1970, ch. 598, § 1; 1975, ch. 342, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-905; Acts 1981, ch. 111, §§ 1, 2; 1982, ch. 850, § 3; 1989, ch. 173, §§ 2, 3; 1989, ch. 591, § 113; 1991, ch. 221, § 1; 1997, ch. 299, §§ 1-5; 2003, ch. 67, § 1; 2004, ch. 474, § 1; 2005, ch. 154, §§ 1-4; 2006, ch. 584, §§ 1, 2.]
55-9-402. Lights required on motor vehicles — Exceptions — Regulations as to color, type and visibility distance. —
(a) (1) Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, road roller, road machinery or farm tractor shall be equipped with at least two (2) and not more than four (4) headlights, with at least one (1) on each side of the front of the motor vehicle. No nonemergency vehicle shall operate or install emergency flashing light systems, such as strobe, wig-wag, or other flashing lights within the headlight assembly or grill area of the vehicle; provided, however, that a school bus may operate a flashing, wig-wag lighting system within the headlight assembly of the vehicle when the vehicle's visual stop signs are actuated for receiving or discharging school children.
(2) Auxiliary road lighting lamps may be used, but not more than two (2) of such lamps shall be lighted at any one (1) time in addition to the two (2) required headlights.
(3) No spotlight or auxiliary lamp shall be so aimed upon approaching another vehicle that any part of the high intensity portion of the beam therefrom is directed beyond the left side of the motor vehicle upon which the spotlight or auxiliary lamp is mounted, nor more than one hundred feet (100") ahead of such motor vehicle.
(b) (1) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with two (2) red tail lamps and two (2) red stoplights on the rear of such vehicle, and one (1) tail lamp and one (1) stoplight shall be on each side, except that passenger cars manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1939, trucks manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1968, and motorcycles and motor-driven cycles shall have at least one (1) red tail lamp and one (1) red stoplight. No non-emergency vehicle shall operate or install emergency flashing light systems such as strobe, wig-wag, or other flashing lights in tail light lamp, stoplight area, or factory installed emergency flasher and backup light area; provided, however, that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply to the utilization of a continuously flashing light system. For the purposes of this part, “continuously flashing light system” means a brake light system in which the brake lamp pulses rapidly for no more than five (5) seconds when the brake is applied, and then converts to a continuous light as a normal brake lamp until such time as the brake is released.
(2) The stoplight shall be so arranged as to be actuated by the application of the service or foot brake and shall be capable of being seen and distinguished from a distance of one hundred feet (100") to the rear of a motor vehicle in normal daylight, but shall not project a glaring or dazzling light.
(3) The stoplight may be incorporated with the tail lamp.
(4) Motor vehicle taillight lamps may operate as following:
(A) A white backup light operates when the motor vehicle is in reverse;
(B) When the driver is in a panic stop condition going forward, the backup lamp pulses or flashes red; and
(C) Upon normal stops of the motor vehicle, there is no action by the backup light.
(c) Each lamp and stoplight required in this section shall be in good condition and operational.
(d) (1) No vehicle operated in this state shall be equipped with any flashing red or white light or any combination of red or white lights which displays to the front of such vehicle except school buses, a passenger motor vehicle operated by a rural mail carrier of the United States postal service while performing the duties of a rural mail carrier, authorized law enforcement vehicles only when used in combination with a flashing blue light, and emergency vehicles used in firefighting, including ambulances, emergency vehicles used in firefighting which are owned or operated by the division of forestry, firefighting vehicles, rescue vehicles, privately owned vehicles of regular or volunteer firefighters certified in § 55-9-201(c), or other emergency vehicles used in firefighting owned, operated, or subsidized by the governing body of any county or municipality.
(2) Any emergency rescue vehicle owned, titled and operated by a state chartered rescue squad, a member of the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads, privately owned vehicles of regular or volunteer firefighters certified in § 55-9-201(c), and marked with lettering at least three inches (3²) in size and displayed on the left and right sides of the vehicle designating it an “Emergency Rescue Vehicle,” any authorized civil defense emergency vehicle displaying the appropriate civil defense agency markings of at least three inches (3²), and any ambulance or vehicle equipped to provide emergency medical services properly licensed as required in the state of Tennessee and displaying the proper markings, shall also be authorized to be lighted in one (1) or more of the following manners:
(A) A red or red/white visibar type with public address system;
(B) A red or red/white oscillating type light; and
(C) Blinking red or red/white lights, front and rear.
(3) Any vehicle, other than a school bus, a passenger motor vehicle operated by a rural mail carrier of the United States postal service while performing the duties of a rural mail carrier or an emergency vehicle authorized by this section to display flashing red or red/white lights, or authorized law enforcement vehicles using red, white, and blue lights in combination, that displays any such lights shall be considered in violation of this subsection (d).
(e) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, nothing in this section shall prohibit a highway maintenance or utility vehicle, or any other type vehicle or equipment participating, in any fashion, with highway or utility construction, maintenance, or inspection, from operating a white, amber, or white and amber light system on any location on such vehicle or equipment, other than in the taillight lamp, stoplight area, or factory installed emergency flasher and backup light area, if such light system is a strobe, flashing, oscillating, or revolving system, while the vehicle or equipment is parked upon, entering or leaving any highway or utility construction, maintenance, repair or inspection site.
(2) As used in this subsection (e), “utility” means any person, municipality, county, metropolitan government, cooperative, board, commission, district, or any entity created or authorized by public act, private act, or general law to provide electricity, natural gas, water, waste water services, telephone service, or any combination thereof, for sale to consumers in any particular service area.
(3) As used in subdivision (e)(2), “cooperative” means any cooperative providing utility services including, but not limited to, electric or telephone services, or both.
(4) Nothing in this subsection (e) imposes any duty or obligation to install or utilize the lighting systems allowed in this section.
(f) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
[Acts 1931, ch. 82, § 15; 1937, ch. 245, § 5; 1941, ch. 121, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 2700.16 (Williams, § 2695); Acts 1957, ch. 51, § 1; 1969, ch. 40, § 1; 1970, ch. 598, § 1; 1975, ch. 342, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-905; Acts 1981, ch. 111, §§ 1, 2; 1982, ch. 850, § 3; 1989, ch. 173, §§ 2, 3; 1989, ch. 591, § 113; 1991, ch. 221, § 1; 1997, ch. 299, §§ 1-5; 2003, ch. 67, § 1; 2004, ch. 474, § 1; 2005, ch. 154, §§ 1-4; 2006, ch. 584, §§ 1, 2.]
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Originally Posted by jovan_gonzales
^^^ooof. That is just a little out of control. Hahaha. Can you quote the TX laws on such things!? HAHAHA!
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Well ya know...I just hear so much crap from different people about whats legal and whats not, but nobody bothers to read the damn vehicle code. I've sat down and read pretty much the whole thing start to finish. Everytime I mention putting blue underglows on my box someone jumps up and yells...They're illegal! You'll get a ticket! I've been through the whole code and can't find one sentence in their that says that underglows are illegal. The only thing you cannot do and it's spelled out very clearly is to have FLASHING / STROBE blue and/or Red lights on your car.
I read on some forum somewhere some guy posted that he's been ticketed 4 times where he lives for the underglows, 4 times he's been to court and 4 times he's walked out with dismissed charges because he knew what the vehicle code said.
As I told Jester today it's (having the vehicle code book) like having the opponents play book and you should be familiar with it, particularly if you live in an area where cops like to hassle people w/ modded cars.
I read on some forum somewhere some guy posted that he's been ticketed 4 times where he lives for the underglows, 4 times he's been to court and 4 times he's walked out with dismissed charges because he knew what the vehicle code said.
As I told Jester today it's (having the vehicle code book) like having the opponents play book and you should be familiar with it, particularly if you live in an area where cops like to hassle people w/ modded cars.
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Originally Posted by j3st3r
Originally Posted by jovan_gonzales
^^^ooof. That is just a little out of control. Hahaha. Can you quote the TX laws on such things!? HAHAHA!
Anyways, where does one get a book with those vehicle codes? I would really like to have one!
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Sorry to disappoint and I do not really care what you believe . Motor vehicles that did not come equipped with blue parking lights are considered out of code . Therefore , they are illegal . And , as for underbody kits . They are most certainly legal . But , if they did not come on the car from the factory , they cannot be used while the motor vehicle is in operation . I am not here to argue you idiot . I am trying to help . Your cops tell you it is ok , go for it . Who cares . Just note , because the vehicle coding on lights does not get specific about colors , it does not mean it is right . Unless Tennessee emergency vehicles do not use blue , you may not use blue lights regardless of the ability to flash . You disagree and leave it at that . I think you have a problem j3st3r . Just because I disagreed with yopu does not make me a bad guy . You guys need to get over people that disagree and not namecall . Sheesh . I am telling you it is illegal . You say it is legal because a cop said so and because it does not say in the vehicle code . No problem . Lol . Enjoy your lights . Must be ok . I must be wrong .
By the way , I am a detective in Va and know what you can be given a summons for in Va and Tennessee based on law . However , I am not from Tennessee so I am ignorant to your laws . so , I cannot argue . never wanted to . get over it . We all should now know that blue parking lights and underbody kits are perfectly legal in Tennessee so , nothing else is needed to be said . Glad you guys cleared it up . Thank you
By the way , I am a detective in Va and know what you can be given a summons for in Va and Tennessee based on law . However , I am not from Tennessee so I am ignorant to your laws . so , I cannot argue . never wanted to . get over it . We all should now know that blue parking lights and underbody kits are perfectly legal in Tennessee so , nothing else is needed to be said . Glad you guys cleared it up . Thank you
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Originally Posted by jovan_gonzales
Anyways, where does one get a book with those vehicle codes? I would really like to have one!
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/tn.toc.htm