# Car exterior lighting regulations

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 28, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084 "2023-12-28T22:16:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084/61 "2024-01-02T19:14:14Z")

</div>

> [@jtsanders](#):
>
> Not likely [to have cost the taxpayers very much for the regulation prose]. Those regulations were proposed by the state legislature. Average annual salary was $52,705 and median salary was $51,846. I doubt that the legislators live on that salary alone.

The elected officials don’t normally write that sort of technical legal prose. Their staff does that job, or they contract it out. Here in San Jose the elected City Council member’s salary is probably around $50K per year, but there are 63 staff employees with salaries above $400K.

[How much are the top San Jose employees paid? - San José Spotlight](https://sanjosespotlight.com/how-much-are-the-top-san-jose-employees-paid/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084/62 "2024-01-03T14:21:21Z")

</div>

San Jose has a population of just under 1,000,000. Those jobs you link to are highly responsible positions in a very high cost of living city. If the job holders have to live in San Jose, how can you expect to get qualified people if they aren’t paid well?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084/63 "2024-01-03T19:57:26Z")

</div>

I have no complaint about those folks salaries. But if it is not the higher paid staff experts, who do you think composes the legal prose?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![paulndottie48\_185297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@paulndottie48\_185297](https://community.cartalk.com/u/paulndottie48_185297)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084/64 "2024-01-08T23:29:12Z")

</div>

My folk’s '57 Imperial did not have quad headlights, it used the bigger single headlamp on each side. Some '57 Chrysler products came with quads and some did not. In all 50 states there were a few that the quad headlights were still illegal to sell in that state in 1957.

[Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-exterior-lighting-regulations/194084.md?page=3)