All cars with factory AC have a 30% tint (70% light transmission), so *any* tint, no matter how small, added on top of that violates the law. I wonder if police are issued light meters? If not, who determines 70% light transmission? I'm sure that you are correct but it would seem to me that a ticket would be very easy to fight in court if the police didn't measure the light transmission. It may well be less expensive to simply pay the ticket. This means you will need to have the light transmission measured at a lab and you will need to have a copy of the Florida statutes with you when you go to court. While it may be incumbent upon the state to prove it's claims, most often the judge will simply accept the officer's word on the basis of his training and experience, forcing you to prove them wrong. Unless the Judge is a complete putz or you are being an idiot (if you are a New Yorker with a Florida plated vehicle and are behaving like a jerk), you have a reasonable chance of winning. Also, I would expect that the officer did not use any equipment to measure the tint, giving you the opportunity to challenge his opinion. You can fight the ticket if the car is registered in and is road-legal in Florida. The wording as posted for the NYS rules appears to violate the spirit of the accomodation: Are you expected to stop at a tinting place and have the treatment removed before entering the state? Were you expected to park the vehicle at a rest stop and walk? Obviously not. That includes permanent owner-provided accessories with the exception of such items as radar detectors and navigators, which are considered portable and thus can be removed - an example is Quebec, which will seize your detector, fine you $1000 dollars, 15 points and will destroy it if they find it in the vehicle, whether or not it is in use. WE have to abide by the state's rules of the road wherever we are, however our cars only have to be road-legal in the state in which they are registered.Ī legal accomodation exists where each state and province accepts the equipment rules for the vehicles of all the others. Sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall have aĬlear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such Seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both A rear window may have a light transmittance of less than With any material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy (4) the rear window of which is composed of, covered by or treated Transmittance of less than seventy percent or Hatchback or convertible and any rear side window has a light (3) if it is classified as a station wagon, sedan, hardtop, coupe, Or adjacent to the operator's seat are composed of, covered by or (2) the sidewings or side windows of which on either side forward of Seventy percent unless such materials are limited to the uppermost six Treated with any material which has a light transmittance of less than (1) the front windshield of which is composed of, covered by or (b) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public highway, For the former, Vehicle & Traffic Law sec. Safety equipment is covered under different laws than registration (plates), and applies to all vehicles regardless of place of registration. I hope he has plenty of time to waste there if he wants to fight them. Sorry about the O.P.'s tickets, but NYC is horrible and their courts are worse. You rarely see cops around where I live, now they are everywhere. Many are getting stopped and ticketed lately. I see many cars from CT coming into NY and cops don't usualy bother people with only 1 plate, but do when it is an election year or when the coffers are low. CT issues 2 plates like NY but only requires 1 rear plate. I'm in NY, 3 miles from the CT/NY state line. They are ticketing people for sitting on milk crates on the sidewalk. But you have to remember that New York doesn't seem to realize that when income goes down, so should spending. I don't think it is written into the laws, just kind of a handshake and turn the blind eye. Most states do honor equipment laws of other states. Ohio will NOT ticket Indiana cars for not having a front plate just as Indiana will not ticket Ohio cars for HAVING a front plate. Indiana only requires and issues a rear plate. Ohio, like New York, requires both front and rear license plates.
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