Effective - 28 Aug 2010, 2 histories
307.173. Specifications for sun-screening device applied to windshield or windows — permit required, when — exceptions — rules, procedure — violations, penalty. — 1. Any person may operate a motor vehicle with front sidewing vents or windows located immediately to the left and right of the driver that have a sun-screening device, in conjunction with safety glazing material, that has a light transmission of thirty-five percent or more plus or minus three percent and a luminous reflectance of thirty-five percent or less plus or minus three percent. Except as provided in subsection 5 of this section, any sun-screening device applied to front sidewing vents or windows located immediately to the left and right of the driver in excess of the requirements of this section shall be prohibited without a permit pursuant to a physician's prescription as described below. A permit to operate a motor vehicle with front sidewing vents or windows located immediately to the left and right of the driver that have a sun-screening device, in conjunction with safety glazing material, which permits less light transmission and luminous reflectance than allowed under the requirements of this subsection, may be issued by the department of public safety to a person having a serious medical condition which requires the use of a sun-screening device if the permittee's physician prescribes its use. The director of the department of public safety shall promulgate rules and regulations for the issuance of the permit. The permit shall allow operation of the vehicle by any titleholder or relative within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, which shall mean a spouse, each grandparent, parent, brother, sister, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, child, and grandchild of a person, who resides in the household. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, all sun-screening devices applied to the windshield of a motor vehicle are prohibited.
2. This section shall not prohibit labels, stickers, decalcomania, or informational signs on motor vehicles or the application of tinted or solar screening material to recreational vehicles as defined in section 700.010, provided that such material does not interfere with the driver's normal view of the road. This section shall not prohibit factory-installed tinted glass, the equivalent replacement thereof or tinting material applied to the upper portion of the motor vehicle's windshield which is normally tinted by the manufacturer of motor vehicle safety glass.
3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.
4. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
5. Any vehicle licensed with a historical license plate shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 501 § 1, A.L. 1987 H.B. 78, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1994 S.B. 475, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1997 S.B. 121, A.L. 2001 S.B. 244, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1386 & 1038 merged with S.B. 727 & 703, A.L. 2009 H.B. 683, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1540)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation
Chapter 307 - Vehicle Equipment Regulations
Section 307.005 - Light-emitting diodes deemed operating properly, when.
Section 307.010 - Loads which might become dislodged to be secured — failure, penalty.
Section 307.015 - Mud flaps required, certain motor vehicles — violation, penalty.
Section 307.020 - Definitions.
Section 307.035 - Director's decisions final, when — appeal to board — hearing and decisions.
Section 307.040 - When lights required — violation, penalty.
Section 307.045 - Headlamp on motor vehicles — violations, penalty.
Section 307.050 - Headlamps — permissible substitutes, speed limit.
Section 307.055 - Single-beam headlamps — intensity, adjustment — violation, penalty.
Section 307.060 - Multiple-beam headlamps — arrangement — violation, penalty.
Section 307.065 - New vehicles shall have beam indicator — violation, penalty.
Section 307.070 - Dimming of lights, when — violation, penalty.
Section 307.075 - Taillamps, reflectors — violations, penalty.
Section 307.080 - Auxiliary lamps — number — location — violation, penalty.
Section 307.085 - Cowl, fender, running board and backup lamps — violation, penalty.
Section 307.090 - Spotlamps — restrictions, penalty.
Section 307.095 - Colors of various lamps — restriction of red lights, penalty.
Section 307.105 - Limitation on total of lamps lighted at one time — violation, penalty.
Section 307.110 - Parked vehicles — how lighted — exception — violation, penalty.
Section 307.115 - Other vehicles — how lighted — violation, penalty.
Section 307.120 - Penalty for violations.
Section 307.122 - Electronic message devices, prohibited on vehicle, exceptions — penalty.
Section 307.125 - Animal-driven vehicles, lighting requirements — penalty — rulemaking authority.
Section 307.130 - Safety glass defined.
Section 307.135 - Director not to license vehicle without safety glass.
Section 307.140 - Safety glass on vehicles for hire and school buses.
Section 307.145 - Sale of vehicles without safety glass prohibited.
Section 307.150 - List of approved glass.
Section 307.155 - Violation a misdemeanor.
Section 307.160 - Revocation of permit by public service commission.
Section 307.165 - Seat safety belts standard equipment, when — penalty.
Section 307.170 - Other equipment of motor vehicles — violations, penalty.
Section 307.171 - Studded tires, prohibited when — penalty.
Section 307.175 - Sirens and flashing lights, use of, when — permits — violation, penalty.
Section 307.180 - Bicycle and motorized bicycle, defined.
Section 307.183 - Brakes required.
Section 307.185 - Lights and reflectors, when required — standards to be met.
Section 307.188 - Rights and duties of bicycle, electric bicycle, and motorized bicycle riders.
Section 307.190 - Riding to right, required for bicycles and motorized bicycles.
Section 307.191 - Bicycle to operate on the shoulder adjacent to roadway, when — roadway defined.
Section 307.192 - Bicycle required to give hand or mechanical signals.
Section 307.193 - Penalty for violation.
Section 307.196 - Equipment required.
Section 307.198 - All-terrain vehicles, equipment required — penalty.
Section 307.205 - Defined — requirements for operation.
Section 307.207 - Equipment required.
Section 307.209 - Roadway operation, requirements.
Section 307.211 - Violations, penalties.
Section 307.250 - Compact — entered into.
Section 307.255 - Legislative findings.
Section 307.260 - Rules not effective until approved by legislature.
Section 307.265 - Director of revenue to be state's commissioner.
Section 307.275 - State agencies to cooperate with commission.
Section 307.280 - Documents to be filed with secretary of state.
Section 307.285 - Commission to submit budget to commissioner of administration.
Section 307.290 - State auditor may inspect commission's accounts.
Section 307.295 - Executive head defined.
Section 307.353 - No safety inspection required during registration period which exceeds two years.
Section 307.370 - Prohibited acts.
Section 307.402 - Inspection of state-owned vehicles, responsibility for.