Timeline for Can states regulate the tint of rear side windows and rear windshields on a car?
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| Jun 16, 2015 at 18:19 | comment | added | cpast | @cnst Incidentally, rear and rear-side window tint levels are certainly related to officer safety. Cops approach vehicles from behind, and many vehicles have multiple rows of seats. Therefore, a rational legislature could decide it makes sense to restrict tint on those windows. Texas and California might have decided differently, but a court doesn't care if a law is the best way to address the legitimate state interest or if other states addressed it the same way; it just has to be a rational way to do it. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | cnst | @cpast, notwithstanding how sunny California is, it essentially still prohibits "tinting" of the front-side windows, since they must have an overall VLT of at least 70% -- it seems like few manufacturers even make film that light (and you have to consider that the window by itself is likely already noticeably below 100% to start with) | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | cpast | @cnst How on earth did you come to the conclusion that unenforcability was the likely reason? Keep in mind something else about TX and CA: they're sunny, much more so than NY. And what Canada does is irrelevant to US courts. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 14:50 | comment | added | cnst | You are not addressing the back-side and rear window issue. I've re-looked at the rules, and in addition to California and Texas, the most populous US states, which only mandate front side windows VLT, almost all provinces in Canada do not regulate back-side and the rear window. It must be for a reason, likely because it's not enforceable. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 13:02 | history | answered | jqning | CC BY-SA 3.0 |