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NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law,

Section 375, Subdivision 12-a

Attachment prepared 8/8/01

12-a. (a) Every motor vehicle,

except a motorcycle, when driven or operated upon a public highway, road or

street shall be equipped with a front windshield in a fixed and more or less

upright position constructed of safety glass as defined in subdivision fourteen

of this section and required by subdivisions eleven and twelve hereof. No

person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign or other nontransparent

material other than a certificate or paper required to be displayed by law upon

the front windshield or the sidewings or side windows

on either side forward of or adjacent to the operator`s

seat.

( No person shall operate any

motor vehicle upon any public highway, road or street: (1) the front windshield

of which is composed of, covered by or treated with any material which has a

light transmittance of less than seventy percent unless such materials are

limited to the uppermost six inches of the windshield; or (2) the sidewings or side windows of which on either side forward

of or adjacent to the operator`s seat are composed

of, covered by or treated with any material which has a light transmittance of

less than seventy percent; or (3) if it is classified as a station wagon,

sedan, hardtop, coupe, hatchback or convertible and any rear side window has a

light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or (4) the rear window of

which is composed of, covered by or treated with any material which has a light

transmittance of less than seventy percent. A rear window may have a light

transmittance of less than seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side

mirrors on both sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall

have a clear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such

vehicle.

© Any person required for medical

reasons to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun and/or any person

operating a motor vehicle belonging to such person or in which such person is

an habitual passenger shall be exempt from the provisions of subparagraphs one

and two of paragraph ( of this subdivision provided the commissioner has

granted an exemption and notice of such exemption is affixed to the vehicle as

directed by the commissioner. The applicant for such exemption must provide a physician`s statement with the reason for the exemption,

the name of the individual with a medically necessary condition operating or

transported in the vehicle, the specific condition involved, and the minimum

level of light transmission required. The commissioner shall only authorize

exemptions where the medical condition certified by the physician is contained

on a list of medical conditions prepared by the commissioner of health pursuant

to subdivision sixteen of section two hundred six of the public health law. If

such such exemption is granted, the commissioner

shall make a record thereof and shall distribute a sufficiently noticeable

sticker to the applicant to be attached to any window so shielded or altered

pursuant to such exemption.

(d) The commissioner may test any

window for a person who has been charged with violating this subdivision. If

such window is found to be in conformity with this subdivision, a small label

attesting to the conformity shall be affixed to the window tested.

(e) On and after January first,

nineteen hundred ninety-two, no person shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale,

equip or operate a motor vehicle in this state in violation of the provisions

of this subdivision, except that a person may operate a nineteen hundred

ninety-one or earlier model year vehicle without violating this subdivision if

the windows on said vehicle were in conformity with this subdivision as it

existed on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-one.

Much

Love,

Deanna

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Serenity Prayer...

Lord, grant me the

serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things

I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of doctors I shot when they said,

You're perfectly healthy, it's all in your head "