(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 or such other similar product as may be approved by the Ohio 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. (ORC 4513.26)