HOUSE BILL No. 1344
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                    DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected:  IC 9-19-19-4.

Synopsis:  Window tinting. Provides that proof that vehicle
sunscreening material has a total solar reflectance of visible
light of more than 25% as measured on the nonfilm side and light
transmittance of less than 30% in the visible light range
constitutes prima facie evidence of a violation of law.

Effective:  July 1, 1996.

Author:  Harris

     January 8, 1996, read first time and referred to Committee on
Roads and Transportation.


                                                       Introduced

      Second Regular Session 109th General Assembly (1996)

                   HOUSE BILL No. 1344

     A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor
vehicles.

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

     SECTION 1. IC 9-19-19-4, AS AMENDED BY P.L.128-1995, SECTION
1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1996]: Sec. 4.
(a) This section does not apply to a manufacturer's tinting or
glazing of motor vehicle windows or windshields that is otherwise
in compliance with or permitted by FMVSS205 as promulgated in 49
CFR 571.205. Proof from the manufacturer, supplier, or installer
that the tinting or glazing is in compliance with or permitted by
FMVSS205 must be carried in the vehicle.
     (b) This section does not apply to the driver of a vehicle:
          (1) that is owned by an individual required for medical
          reasons to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun;
          or
          (2) in which an individual required for medical reasons
          to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun is a
          habitual passenger.
The medical reasons must be attested to by a physician licensed to
practice in Indiana, and the physician's certification of that
condition must be carried in the vehicle. The physician's
certificate must be renewed annually.
     (c) A person may not drive a motor vehicle that has a:
          (1) windshield;
          (2) side wing;
          (3) side window that is part of a front door; or
          (4) rear back window;
that is covered by or treated with sunscreening material or is
tinted to the extent or manufactured in a way that the occupants of
the vehicle cannot be easily identified or recognized through that
window from outside the vehicle. However, it is a defense
if
     (d) Proof that the sunscreening material applied to
those windows a window described in subsection
(c)(1) through (c)(4) has a total solar reflectance of visible
light of not more than twenty-five percent (25%)
as measured on the nonfilm side and light transmittance of
at least less than thirty percent (30%) in
the visible light range constitutes prima facie evidence of a
violation of subsection (c).