(a) No person shall sell any new motor vehicle nor shall any new motor vehicle be registered, and no person shall operate any motor vehicle, which is registered in this State and which has been manufactured or assembled 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. Such glass shall be free of discoloration, diffusion, and cracks.
(b) "Safety glass" means any product composed of glass so manufactured, fabricated or treated as substantially to prevent shattering and flying of the glass when it is struck or broken, or such other or similar product as may be approved by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.
(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.
(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.
(Ord. 8-2010. Passed 3-9-10.)