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I Got A Ticket For Tinted Windows? Help!!!!?

4 Comments 14 February 2010

HI guys, I just got a ticket for tinted windows ( passenger and driver side ), what can i do ? , i live in palmdale CA, and I was wondering approx. how much will the ticket cost? and how do you know if it is a fix-it ticket?

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  1. flutterb says:

    It is a “fix-it” ticket. Remove the tinting and take your vehicle to a CHP station. If the windows are within legal standards (and your license, registration and insurance are present and valid) the officer will sign off on the ticket. I believe from there you can take the signed off ticket to the traffic court, and from there you pay a court processing fee.
    Call the court or CHP station for verification so that you don’t make any unnecessary trips.

  2. Stevie says:

    get the tint removed and talk to the judge.

  3. MAN IN UNIFORM says:

    REMOVE THE TINT AND WHEN YOU GO TO COURT TELL THEM YOU REMOVED IT AN OFFICER WILL CHECK AND LET THE JUDGE KNOW AND HE WILL MAKE HIS DECISION……..

  4. IC core? Give it a coat!!! says:

    California tint law:
    VEHICLE CODE
    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.
    (2) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any object or
    material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or
    upon the vehicle which obstructs or reduces the driver’s clear
    view through the windshield or side windows.
    (3) This subdivision applies to a person driving a motor vehicle
    with the driver’s clear vision through the windshield, or side or
    rear windows, obstructed by snow or ice.
    (b) This section does not apply to any of the following:
    (1) Rearview mirrors.
    (2) Adjustable nontransparent sunvisors which are mounted forward
    of the side windows and are not attached to the glass.
    (3) Signs, stickers, or other materials which are displayed in a
    7-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed
    from the driver, signs, stickers, or other materials which are
    displayed in a 7-inch square in the lower corner of the rear window
    farthest removed from the driver, or signs, stickers, or other materials
    which are displayed in a 5-inch square in the lower corner of the
    windshield nearest the driver.
    (4) Side windows which are to the rear of the driver.
    (5) Direction, destination, or termini signs upon a passenger common
    carrier motor vehicle or a schoolbus, if those signs do not interfere
    with the driver’s clear view of approaching traffic.
    (6) Rear window wiper motor.
    (7) Rear trunk lid handle or hinges.
    (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.
    (9) A clear, transparent lens affixed to the side window opposite the
    driver on a vehicle greater than 80 inches in width and which occupies
    an area not exceeding 50 square inches of the lowest corner toward the
    rear of that window and which provides the driver with a wide-angle view
    through the lens.
    (10) Sun screening devices meeting the requirements of Section 26708.2
    installed on the side windows on either side of the vehicle’s front seat,
    if the driver or a passenger in the front seat has in his or her
    possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed physician and
    surgeon certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a
    medical condition, or has in his or her possession a letter or other
    document signed by a licensed optometrist certifying that the person must
    be shaded from the sun due to a visual condition. The devices authorized
    by this paragraph shall not be used during darkness.
    (11) An electronic communication device affixed to the center uppermost
    portion of the interior of a windshield within an area that is not greater
    than 5 inches square, if the device provides either of the following:
    (A) The capability for enforcement facilities of the Department of the
    California Highway Patrol to communicate with a vehicle equipped with
    the device.
    (B) The capability for electronic toll and traffic management on public
    or private roads or facilities.
    (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), transparent material may be installed,
    affixed, or applied to the topmost portion of the windshield if the following
    conditions apply:
    (1) The bottom edge of the material is at least 29 inches above the
    undepressed driver’s seat when measured from a point 5 inches in front
    of the bottom of the backrest with the driver’s seat in its rearmost
    and lowermost position with the vehicle on a level surface.
    (2) The material is not red or amber in color.
    (3) There is no opaque lettering on the material and any other lettering
    does not affect primary colors or distort vision through the windshield.
    (4) The material does not reflect sunlight or headlight glare into the
    eyes of occupants of oncoming or following vehicles to any greater extent
    than the windshield without the material.
    (d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), clear, colorless, and transparent
    material may be installed, affixed, or applied to the front side windows,
    located to the immediate left and right of the front seat if the following
    conditions are met:
    (1) The material has a minimum visible light transmittance of 88 percent.
    (2) The window glazing with the material applied meets all requirements
    of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 205 (49 C.F.R. 571.205),
    including the specified minimum light transmittance of 70 percent and
    the abrasion resistance of AS-14 glazing, as specified in that federal
    standard.
    (3) The material is designed and manufactured to enhance the ability
    of the existing window glass to block the sun’s harmful ultraviolet A rays.
    (4) The driver has in his or her possession, or within the vehicle,
    a certificate signed by the installing company certifying that the
    windows with the material installed meet the requirements of this
    subdivision and identifies the installing company and the material’s
    manufacturer by full name and street address, or, if the material was
    installed by the vehicle owner, a certificate signed by the material’s
    manufacturer certifying that the windows with the material installed
    according to manufacturer’s instructions meets the requirements of this
    subdivision and identifies the material’s manufacturer by full name
    and street address.
    (5) If the material described in this subdivision tears or bubbles,
    or is otherwise worn to prohibit clear vision, it shall be removed
    or replaced.
    Amended Sec. 77, Ch. 1154, Stats. 1996. Effective September 30, 1996.
    Amended Sec. 1, Ch. 476, Stats. 1998. Effective January 1, 1999.
    26708.2. Sun screening devices permitted by paragraph (10) of
    subdivision (b) of Section 26708 shall meet the following
    requirements:
    (a) The devices shall be held in place by means allowing ready
    removal from the window area, such as a frame, a rigid material with
    temporary fasteners, or a flexible roller shade.
    (b) Devices utilizing transparent material shall be green, gray,
    or a neutral smoke in color and shall have a luminous transmittance
    of not less than 35 percent.
    (c) Devices utilizing nontransparent louvers or other alternating
    patterns of opaque and open sections shall have an essentially
    uniform pattern over the entire surface, except for framing and
    supports. At least 35 percent of the device area shall be open and
    no individual louver or opaque section shall have a projected
    vertical dimension exceeding 3/16 inch.
    (d) The devices shall not have a reflective quality exceeding 35
    percent on either the inner or outer surface.
    26708.5. (a) No person shall place, install, affix, or apply any
    transparent material upon the windshield, or side or rear windows, of
    any motor vehicle if the material alters the color or reduces the
    light transmittance of the windshield or side or rear windows, except
    as provided in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 26708.
    (b) Tinted safety glass may be installed in a vehicle if (1) the
    glass complies with motor vehicle safety standards of the United
    States Department of Transportation for safety glazing materials, and
    (2) the glass is installed in a location permitted by those
    standards for the particular type of glass used.


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