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A.R.S. § 28-931: Vehicle Lamp Colors

Lamp colors

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What color must a vehicle's rear lamps be in Arizona?

In Arizona, a vehicle's front clearance and marker lamps and reflectors must be amber, while its rear ones must be red, except that license plate lights and backup lamps must be white; a stoplight or other signal device may be red, amber, or yellow, except that on a commercial vehicle the stoplight itself must be red while other signal devices may still be red or amber.

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28-931. Lamp colors

A. Front clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color.

B. Rear clearance lamps and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color.

C. All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except that:

1. The stoplight or other signal device may be red, amber or yellow, except on a commercial vehicle, as defined in section 28-2231, the stoplight shall be red and the other signal devices shall be red or amber.

2. The light illuminating the license plate or the light emitted by a backup lamp shall be white.

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