In Texas, you cannot "show" red or blue light on the front of a moving
vehicle. These colors are reserved for emergency vehicles only.
On the rear, you cannot "show" white while moving in a foreward
direction, ie, cracked or broken tail lights, because the brightness can
blind a driver behind you.
Reverse lights are OK to be white as long as they don't continue to burn
after you shift out of reverse into drive.
These are the legalities that the police use when they pull you over for
the lenses.
My long time friend and room mate, before I got married, was a police
officer in Grand Prarie TX for a few years. If he had an idea to pull
someone over, a cracked tail light lens would do fine.
If they had warrants or were drunk, off to jail they go.
It's probably the same law everywhere else.
How about you current and ex officers, what does/did your department say
about the clear lenses and colored bulbs?
Alan S.
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