(a) (1) No person shall operate, on any street or other public or private property open to the public for vehicular travel or parking, a motor vehicle in which the use of transparent, nontransparent, translucent and reflectorized materials in or on the windshields, side windows, sideways and side windows that prevent a person of normal vision looking into the motor vehicle from seeing or identifying persons or objects inside the motor vehicle.
(2) The front windshield must have a light transmittance level of not less than seventy percent (70%) and the side and rear windows must have a light transmittance level of not less than fifty percent (50%).
(b) This section does not apply to:
(1) Manufacturer’s tint on multipurpose vehicles, vehicles designed to carry ten persons or less which are constructed on a truck chassis or with special features for off road operation including: truck, vans, or mini vans, jeeps, recreational vehicles and four wheel drive vehicles on a truck chassis.
(2) Limousines for hire (i.e. not privately owned personal vehicles).
(3) Persons who carry a physicians affidavit with them while operating their vehicle which states because of a medical condition they are required to have tint which is not in compliance with our standards.
(4) A hearse or other vehicle used to transport corpses.
(5) Semitrucks, tractor trailers rigs, commercial buses, mass transit vehicles, school buses, farm vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds, construction vehicles, sun roofs or T-tops.
(c) No motor vehicle shall have windows tinted with a reflectorized tint.
(d) All motor vehicles equipped with blinds, curtains or louvers shall have the same open during vehicle operation.
(Ord. 116-91. Passed 12-2-91.)
(Ord. 116-91. Passed 12-2-91.)
(e) 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.