<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face=" Arial, Verdana, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by vchristie:
I was pulled over on my way home from work today for having my front side windows tinted. I did my research as soon as I got home, and looked up the vehicle code to try and understand what I was being cited for. I've read throught the hole section and still don't understand the problem. My visibility is NOT reduce! I had no problem seeing the red and blue lights coming from the patrol car. Help! My question is, why isn't this a fix-a-ticket? And how steep can the fine be?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
My response:
Here, read the code more carefully (subsection "B" refers to Section "A"):
C.V.C. 26708.
(a) (1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied upon the windshield or side or rear windows.
(b) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(4) Side windows which are to the rear of the driver.
(8) The rear window or windows, when the motor vehicle is equipped with outside mirrors on both the left- and right-hand sides of the vehicle that are so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway through each mirror for a distance of at least 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle.
Your driver's and passenger side windows were tinted. Therefore, you violated the law. If you had only tinted the side windows "behind" you, and on the passenger side, you would not have been cited.
Now, read my entry on this Board entitled, "For all of us Knuckleheads . . ." fight the ticket and make them do the work.
IAAL
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