Ask a Trooper: What Are the Guidelines on Darkish Window Tint in Minnesota? – Albert Lee Tribune

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Ask a Trooper: What Are the Guidelines on Darkish Window Tint in Minnesota?

Printed at 8:44 am Friday, October 7, 2022

Ask a Soldier by Troy Christiansen

Q: I am seeing increasingly autos in Minnesota with darkish home windows. I believed there was a regulation prohibiting darkish home windows on each the motive force and passenger home windows, however the rear home windows may be darkish. Till the legal guidelines change and I do not know. Thanks.

Troy Christianson

Reply: In Minnesota, you’ll be able to have your home windows tinted for a light-weight transmittance of fifty%, however no much less. Gentle transmittance is the quantity of sunshine required to cross by means of each the window and the tint movie. Earlier than any coloring materials is utilized to your home windows, a car arrives from the manufacturing facility that already has the tint contained in the glass materials. No home windows come on at 100% mild transmittance from the manufacturing facility. My expertise has been that almost all autos are already at 75% earlier than any modifications.

• There may be no car any Tint the entrance windshield.

• Passenger automobiles are restricted to 50% on all facet and rear home windows.

• Pickups, vans and SUVs are restricted to 50% off entrance facet home windows.

• Pickups, vans and SUVs aren’t restricted to rear and rear home windows. (The rear of the entrance seat could also be lower than 50%).

• Squad automobiles, limousines and autos utilized by funeral institutions to move human stays aren’t restricted to the facet and rear home windows.

Extra persons are getting prescriptions from docs for window paint to be greater than 50% darker. If folks have any sort of medical circumstances which are affected by the solar, they’re allowed to have the colour of the window paint darker than 50%. Correct documentation will probably be required within the car to point out to regulation enforcement upon request. The doc will particularly be required to state the minimal share that the sunshine transmittance may be lowered to fulfill the affected person’s prescription or medical wants; and the prescription or assertion has an expiration date, which shouldn’t exceed two years from the date on which the prescription or assertion was issued.

You’ll be able to keep away from a ticket – and an accident – in case you simply lean over, drive at a protected velocity, listen and all the time drive calm. Assist us lead Minnesota to zero deaths.

In case you have any questions on site visitors legal guidelines or points in Minnesota, ship your inquiries to Sgt. Troy Christianson, Minnesota State Patrol, at 2900 forty eighth St NW, Rochester, MN 55901-5848; Or attain out to him at [email protected].

Troy Christiansen is a sergeant with the Minnesota State Patrol.

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