Based on how the law was written, all it took was one offense to end up with a ticket. Speaking with others in the state's car community, Stark said his journey began as he noticed members in the Utah car community kept running into "fix-it tickets" because of the tint on their windows. Stark said he got interested in the law in a similar way as Teuscher. While the change may seem small, getting a bill to make this adjustment through the Legislature was quite a journey. "Utah has about 140 tint shops across the state." "This change is good for small business," said Clayton Stark, the owner of Summit Auto Lab in Park City and the director of the Utah Tint Association, in a news release Saturday. The level is now much closer to neighboring states - and window tinting advocates in Utah couldn't be more excited. It also allows for a 5% tolerance to account for variables, meaning the owner of a car with a 30% visible light transmission rate wouldn't get a ticket, either. The Utah Legislature, on the last day of the legislative session, last Friday, passed a bill that allows automotive tint limits to be relaxed a bit, reducing the visible light transmission rate of a front side window from 43% to 35%. That's now one governor signature away from officially changing.
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The state law has, for years, called for lighter windows than its Western counterparts.
While he didn't have a similar incident again, it highlights a problem lawmakers found in Utah's tinted windows law. "As I went to find out what it would cost to remove the tint and put on what Utah tint was, it was like four times the cost of the ticket," he recalled, to his colleagues in the Utah House of Representatives on Friday. Using a special meter to measure the light of the windows, the officer told Teuscher that the windows were 5% off the state's maximum visible light transmission rate, and issued him a citation. He was cruising through Utah some time ago - 2014, per state court records - in a car he had purchased in California when he was pulled over by an officer, who, during a traffic stop, began to inspect Teuscher's windows. Jordan Teuscher, R-South Jordan, says he learned of Utah's window tinting law the hard way. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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