Window Tint License Plate IL
To reiterate for everyone, this makes any of the following combinations legal for passenger vehicles (SUVs and pickups with non-factory rear tint have to wait until January for an clarifying bill/rider to be introduced):
- No tint on the front windows means you can have anything you want on the back windows. Same as it was yesterday.
- As dark as 50% on the front windows means you can go as dark as 30% on the rear passenger windows and back window.
- As dark as 35% on the front windows means you can go as dark as 35% on the rear passenger windows and back window.
100/0 means the opposite, of course...Come Spring I'll be installing moleskin and get myself 35% all around.
finally. after maria's account, i'll give this another 2 or 3 weeks to propagate through the local PD systems before reinstalling 35% on my fronts. This is sooooooo stupid seeing as I already had one of the legal combos.....oh well
It won't be incorporated online into the Public Act until early next week, and there's paperwork that needs to be done before it hits the system the police use for statute lookup. It's legal, but the cop on the side of the road probably won't know it yet unless he has a personal interest in it.
Think of it this way: you're a cop, you pull over some guy for doing 50 in a 35, and he hands you a printout of some website that looks like the IL General Assembly website, which says 50 in a 35 is legal as long as you're driving a Toyota Tercel.
Perhaps you could understand why he might not take you at your word, and might want to verify against the system they use first, and, having seen that his system says "no tercel exemption", proceeds to issue you a ticket.
You still have the option of going to court over it, and the judge will most likely throw the case out.
I suspect you're probably going to see problems with this for the next week or two, as this information gets propagated to various departments. Your best bet is to not act like a self-righteous jackass; polite disagreement and pointing the officer in the direction of the revised public act (when it's published) or the house bill itself is as far as you're going to get on the side of the road in traffic. Brian's absolutely right: call the station after the fact, or plan on making the court date.
Think of it this way: you're a cop, you pull over some guy for doing 50 in a 35, and he hands you a printout of some website that looks like the IL General Assembly website, which says 50 in a 35 is legal as long as you're driving a Toyota Tercel.
Perhaps you could understand why he might not take you at your word, and might want to verify against the system they use first, and, having seen that his system says "no tercel exemption", proceeds to issue you a ticket.
You still have the option of going to court over it, and the judge will most likely throw the case out.I suspect you're probably going to see problems with this for the next week or two, as this information gets propagated to various departments. Your best bet is to not act like a self-righteous jackass; polite disagreement and pointing the officer in the direction of the revised public act (when it's published) or the house bill itself is as far as you're going to get on the side of the road in traffic. Brian's absolutely right: call the station after the fact, or plan on making the court date.
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See my post, as well as the facebook group, which has a post in there listing a few other people who helped push this through.
Was driving on Archer in the back of my cousin's Audi that has like literally 50% or some crazy tint... almost hard to tell it's tinted at all... and we got pulled over. We told the cop it's legal and he just kept sayin "Nope, don't know where you got that from but it's not legal." Then we said "Yeah... we're pretty sure the law just passed a few weeks ago," and he replied "There was talk about the bill but it hasn't passed through the house yet."
He wasn't budging, and I really don't ****ing understand it. It gets frustrating when it happens and you KNOW for a fact this fat ****er is wrong and he refuses to even look it up and instead hands out bogus tickets... isn't it against the law to issue a ticket for breaking a law that doesn't exist (or is superseded)?
The ******* thing says effective immediately.
He wasn't budging, and I really don't ****ing understand it. It gets frustrating when it happens and you KNOW for a fact this fat ****er is wrong and he refuses to even look it up and instead hands out bogus tickets... isn't it against the law to issue a ticket for breaking a law that doesn't exist (or is superseded)?
The ******* thing says effective immediately.
Carry a printed copy of the bill and status from ilga.gov in the glovebox. If the cop is even remotely aware of the bill, it might help. (But again, your only real recourse is fighting the ticket in court.)
It's been law for nearly a month now, it's disappointing to see local PDs not bothering to circulate information about the change in law, especially since it's going to result in a lot of tickets they write being thrown out.
It's been law for nearly a month now, it's disappointing to see local PDs not bothering to circulate information about the change in law, especially since it's going to result in a lot of tickets they write being thrown out.
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Carry a printed copy of the bill and status from ilga.gov in the glovebox. If the cop is even remotely aware of the bill, it might help. (But again, your only real recourse is fighting the ticket in court.)
It's been law for nearly a month now, it's disappointing to see local PDs not bothering to circulate information about the change in law, especially since it's going to result in a lot of tickets they write being thrown out.
It's been law for nearly a month now, it's disappointing to see local PDs not bothering to circulate information about the change in law, especially since it's going to result in a lot of tickets they write being thrown out.
thanks, man I'm not trying to get a ticket that costs more than it did to get the tint on in the first place Plus, that law states that the officer should have some sort of metering device to measure light transmittance, so if he was pulling me over just for that I would think he would have that device with him
Plus, that law states that the officer should have some sort of metering device to measure light transmittance, so if he was pulling me over just for that I would think he would have that device with him