Section 18-734. GLAZING MATERIALS

 

734.1No motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1936, shall be operated in the District unless it is equipped throughout with safety glazing materials of a type approved by the Director.

 

734.2For the purposes of this section, the term “safety glazing materials” shall be construed to mean transparent glazing materials so formulated, treated, or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by objects from exterior sources or by these safety glazing materials when the glazing materials are cracked or broken.

 

734.3The Director shall not register any motor vehicle which is subject to the provisions of this section unless it is equipped with an approved type of safety glazing material.

 

734.4The Director shall compile and publish a list of types of safety glazing materials by name which have been approved by him as meeting the requirements of this section.

 

734.5The use of rigid-type, clear plastic is restricted to side curtains or readily demountable windows, rear windows in the tops of convertible passenger cars, back lights, rear quarter lights and doors, in truck or truck-tractor cabs, in rear doors or taxicabs, in house or freight trailers, in the lights of lower part of folding doors when not over ten inches (10 in.) in the least dimension, in interior partitions and auxiliary wind deflectors, in standee windows in buses, and in openings in the roofs of tops.

 

734.6The use of flexible-type, clear plastic is restricted to side curtains or readily demountable windows; rear windows in the tops of convertible passenger cars; and house or freight trailers.

 

734.7Any section of safety glazing materials cut from safety glazing materials marked by the manufacturer of approved type materials shall be marked with the same words, designation, and letters as the sheet from which it was cut.

 

734.8No motor vehicle may be operated or parked upon the public streets or spaces of the District of Columbia with window tinting in violation of D.C. Code § 50-2207.02 (2001 Ed.).

 

734.9-734.19[REPEALED].

 

source

Regulation No. 72-13 effective June 30, 1972, 32 DCRR § 6.406, Special Edition; as amended by § 3 of the Motor Vehicle Tinted Window Amendment Act of 1994, D.C. Law 10-163, 41 DCR 4886, 4887 (July 22, 1994); as amended by Final Rulemaking at 50 DCR 4403 (Jun 6, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 5987 (Jul 25, 2003).