Light Bars & LED Lighting in Nebraska
Nebraska requires no cover and permits two auxiliary driving lights mounted 12 to 42 inches. Its aiming rule is unusually strict: non-exempt devices over 25 candlepower must not strike the road beyond 50 feet.
Verified against primary sources · August 2026
What the law says
Nebraska has no 300-candlepower or four-lamp cap. Contrary to widely repeated advice, no cover is required in this state — the rule is simply that the lamps are off on the highway. Mounting a light bar is legal everywhere; what states regulate is using it on public roads, and the usual constraint is a mounting-height ceiling plus a per-type lamp count.
Specific Limits
- Aiming
- non-exempt devices over 25 candlepower aimed so no beam strikes the road beyond 50 ft
- Max lamps
- 2 auxiliary driving lights mounted 12-42 in
- Cover required
- No
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