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N.D. Cent. Code § 39-21-22

Single-beam road-lighting equipment

Headlamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light are permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to one year after July 1, 1963, in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

1. The headlamps must be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five feet [7.62 meters] ahead project higher than a level of five inches [12.7 centimeters] below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than forty-two inches [106.68 centimeters] above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet [22.86 meters] ahead.

2. The intensity must be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred feet [60.96 meters].

Official source: North Dakota Legislative Branch. Reproduced from public-domain North Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.