GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 789 
SENATE BILL 496 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT DARK-SHADED WINDOWS ON MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH OBSTRUCT THE VIEW FROM OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-127 is hereby amended by adding new subsections (d) and (e) thereto to read as follows: 
"(d)	It shall be unlawful to operate a noncommercial passenger vehicle registered or which is required to be registered in this State, including passenger cars, pickup trucks and passenger vans, upon any highway or public vehicular area with a windshield or any other window which does not meet the light transmittance requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard No. 205. Provided, vehicles with a windshield or any other window installed prior to August 1, 1985 which does not meet the light transmittance requirements of federal motor vehicle standard No. 205 or vehicles transporting deceased human remains will be exempt from the provisions of this subsection. 
(e)	No motor vehicle inspection certificate shall be issued on or after January 1, 1987 for a motor vehicle subject to subsection (d) with a windshield or any other window which does not meet the light transmittance requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard No. 205. Any motor vehicle otherwise subject to subsection (d) will be exempt from the provisions of this subsection provided the vehicle owner provides the motor vehicle inspector a document, attesting that any windshield or any other window not in compliance with subsection (d) was installed prior to August 1, 1985." 
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of July, 1985.