60-12 Amend 337.22, 337.225, 337.33 Vehicle Requirements

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337.225 USE OF SUNSCREENING, NONTRANSPARENT ANDREFLECTORIZED MATERIALS. (a) Requirements. (1) No person shall operate, on any highway or other public or private prop- erty open to the public for vehicular travel or parking, lease, or rent any motor vehicle that is required to be registered in this State with any sun- screening material, or other product or material which has the effect of making the windshield or windows nontransparent or would alter the win- dows' color, increase its reflectivity, or reduce its light transmittance, unless the product or material satisfies one of the following exceptions: A. Any manufacturer's tinting or glazing of motor vehicle windows or windshields that is otherwise in compliance with or permitted by 'Tederal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 205" (FMVSS 205) in effect at the time of the manufacture of the motor vehicle until such standard is subsequently repealed or reduced. In "Fed- eral Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 205" (FMVSS 205) "manufacturer" means any person engaged in the manufacturing or assembling of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment, includ- ing any person importing motor vehicles or motor vehicle equip- ment for resale. B. Any sunscreening material or other product or material applied to the windshield when used in conjunction with the safety glazing materials of such window, has a light transmittance of not less than seventy per cent plus or minus three per cent and is not red or yel- low in color. C. Auy sunscreening material or other product or material applied to the side windows to the immediate right or left of the driver, so long as such material, when used in conjunction with the safety glazing materials of such windows, has a light transmittance of not less than fifty per cent plus or minus three per cent and is not red or yellow in color. D. Any sunscreening material or other product or material applied to a window not otherwise listed in subsections (a)(1)A. to C. or E. of this section, except that outside left and right rear view mirrors are required if the sunscreening material is applied to the rear window and the sunscreening material, when used in conjunction with the safety glazing material of such window, has a light transmittance of less than fifty per cent plus or minus three per cent. E. Any sunscreening material or other product or material applied along the top of the windshield and that does not extend downward beyond the AS-1 line or five inches fiom the top of the windshield, whichever is closer to the top, is not regulated by this section. (2) No person shall install in any motor vehicle any glass or other material that fails to conform to the specifications of this section. (3) No used motor vehicle dealer or new motor vehicle dealer, as defined in Olrio R.C. 4517.01, shall sell any motor vehicle that fails to conform to the specifications of this section. (4) No reflectorized materials shall be permitted upon or in any fiont wind- shield, side windows, sidewings or rear window. (5) No person shall operate on any highway or other public or private property open to the public for vehicular travel or parking, lease, or rent any motor vehrcle that is required to be registered in this State that is egnipped with privacy drapes, louvers, curtains or blinds unless the drapes, louvers, cur- tains or blinds are open and secure during vehicle operation. (6) All motor vehicles, beginning with the 1990 model year, must be equipped with labels identifying sunscreening material. All sunscreening material