(a) No person shall sell any new motor vehicle and no person shall operate any motor vehicle which is registered in the State and which has been manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1936, unless such vehicle is equipped with safety glass wherever glass is used in the windshields, doors, partitions, rear windows and windows on each side immediately adjacent to the rear window.
(b) The term "safety glass" means any product composed of glass, so manufactured, fabricated or treated as substantially to prevent shattering and flying of the glass when struck or broken.
(c) Glass other than safety glass shall not be offered for sale or sold for use in, or installed in, any door, window partition or windshield which is required by this section to be equipped with safety glass. (ORC 4513.26; Ord.1955-87. Passed 12-20-55.)
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.