Thursday, January 19, 2012

What is the definitive answer on Illinois window tinting laws on cars?

There is so much argument online, much of it around 2009. What is the current law? Can I see a link to something official? Thank you in advance.What is the definitive answer on Illinois window tinting laws on cars?
Here is part of the law. Yahoo won't let me give you the whole thing. Apparently people who use Y!A can't read anything for more than 2 minutes. Really easy to find at

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilc鈥?/a>



(625 ILCS 5/12鈥?03) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12鈥?03)

Sec. 12鈥?03. Windshields must be unobstructed and equipped with wipers.

(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any sign, poster, window application, reflective material, nonreflective material or tinted film upon the front windshield, except that a nonreflective tinted film may be used along the uppermost portion of the windshield if such material does not extend more than 6 inches down from the top of the windshield.

(a鈥?) No window treatment or tinting shall be applied to the windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver, except:

(1) On vehicles where none of the windows to the



rear of the driver's seat are treated in a manner that allows less than 30% light transmittance, a nonreflective tinted film that allows at least 50% light transmittance, with a 5% variance observed by any law enforcement official metering the light transmittance, may be used on the vehicle windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver.

(2) On vehicles where none of the windows to the



rear of the driver's seat are treated in a manner that allows less than 35% light transmittance, a nonreflective tinted film that allows at least 35% light transmittance, with a 5% variance observed by any law enforcement official metering the light transmittance, may be used on the vehicle windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver.

(3) (Blank).

(4) On vehicles where a nonreflective smoked or



tinted glass that was originally installed by the manufacturer on the windows to the rear of the driver's seat, a nonreflective tint that allows at least 50% light transmittance, with a 5% variance observed by a law enforcement official metering the light transmittance, may be used on the vehicle windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver.

(a鈥?0) No person shall install or repair any material prohibited by subsection (a) of this Section.What is the definitive answer on Illinois window tinting laws on cars?
in 2009 Illinois changed its tinting laws to allow drivers to have their windows tinted to a level they call 35% darkness all the way around the car. this is were the confusion comes from the first link is a news article about that change the second link lists the tinting laws for Illinois (2009 was the last time the law was changed )

http://www.kwqc.com/global/story.asp?s=1鈥?/a>

since you didn't like my first source i got you your .gov site here is the link click on Public Acts then do a search the public act number is 096-0815 its about half way down the page but it is says the same as tintcenter.com just not as simply.
http://www.ilga.gov/

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