DIGESETT will begin removing LED strips from vehicles tomorrow.
Google Translation:
Google Translation:
SANTO DOMINGO. Agents of the Directorate General of Traffic Safety and Land Transportation (DIGESETT) will dismantle as of tomorrow Saturday the accessories for the emission of high-luminosity and light-emitting diode (LED) lights in motor vehicles that circulate on the tracks public.
The institution of the road order indicated that the actions will be implemented throughout the national territory and that at the time of the citizen being stopped using high-luminosity bars (LED) in their vehicles and other than those of factory, they will be inspected and they must proceed to disassemble it.
The spokesman of the DIGESETT, Colonel Rafael Tejeda Baldera, indicated that the clearing is essential once the citizen has been inspected, this includes multiple bars, lanterns, spherical headlights and other modalities of the same characteristics.
Also, Tejeda Baldera said, that are excepted from this prohibition high brightness lights that are used by the factory in the motor vehicle in case of fog or rain.
Regarding sports and recreational use, users must obtain authorization through a permit from the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), bearing in mind that the aforementioned permit will not be valid to travel on public roads, roads, highways, avenues, streets in rural or urban areas where they must be covered by a protector that prevents the emission of said lights in said places.
The DIGESETT, encourages the entire population that makes use of these high-luminosity lights, to take the appropriate measures, thus avoiding being audited and dismantling during the process of institutional actions.
The actions are contained in resolution Num.009-2018, issued by the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT), which prohibits the use, installation, modification, addition or adaptation of LED lighting emission accessories.