Dash Cam & Windshield Mounting

Alabama is one of the few states whose code says the words dash camera. Section 32-5A-350.1(g)(5), added by the 2023 hands-free act, exempts from the distracted-driving offense the use…

Alaska has no statute or regulation that carves out a legal mounting square on the windshield, so a dash cam is judged by two other rules. 13 AAC 04.225(a) and (b) forbid driving with…

Arizona is one of the few states whose code names dash cam recording and permits it in so many words. A.R.S. section 28-963(A)(3) forbids recording or broadcasting video on a device…

Arkansas has no dash cam statute, so a camera is judged by two windshield obstruction sections that Act 1251 of 1999 rewrote together. Under Ark. Code § 27-37-304(a)(1)(A) anything…

California measures dash cam placement in square inches. Vehicle Code section 26708(b)(13) lets a video event recorder occupy a seven-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield…

Colorado has no statute naming dash cameras and no list of permitted windshield attachments, so two general rules decide where one may go. Section 42-4-201 (4) requires the driver’s…

No Connecticut statute names a dash camera or sets a permitted mounting zone for one. A dash camera is judged under CGS § 14-99f(c), which bars attaching or hanging any article…

Delaware does not license, permit or exempt dash cameras, and 21 Del. C. § 4309(a) makes it an offence to drive with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material on the front…

The District has no statute or regulation that names dash cameras, and its windshield rule is written the other way round. 18 DCMR § 731.1 bars driving with any sign, poster or other…

Florida does not give dash cameras a windshield carve-out. Fla. Stat. § 316.2952(2) is written as a closed list of exactly four things that may be attached to, or located in or upon, a…

Georgia is one of the few states whose obstruction statute names the mount and permits it. Since July 1, 2021, O.C.G.A. section 40-8-73(a) lets a driver run a mount for a wireless…

Hawaii does not prohibit mounting a dash camera on the windshield or the dashboard. Three separate closed lists in the statutes could have caught one and none of them does: HRS §286-83…

Idaho never wrote a windshield-device statute. Idaho Code § 49-943(1) bans only a sign, poster or other nontransparent material on the windshield or the side or rear windows that…

Illinois never lists permitted windshield zones for a dash cam the way Florida and Texas do. It applies a materiality test instead: 625 ILCS 5/12-503(c-5) prohibits driving with…

Indiana has no statute that names a dash camera, so a camera is governed by the general windshield rule and by an old television provision. Ind. Code § 9-19-19-3(b) prohibits driving…

Iowa never enumerates what may be stuck to a windshield. Chapter 321 mentions the windshield in only four places, and none of them is a list of permitted items, so a dash cam is judged…

Kansas never wrote a closed list of things allowed on a windshield, so there is no Kansas provision a dash cam has to fit into. The whole of the rule is K.S.A. 8-1741(a), which forbids…

Kentucky has never written a dash camera statute, so the rule that decides where you may put one is the windshield provision, KRS 189.110(2). It bars operating a motor vehicle on a…

Louisiana never bans dash cameras; it bans putting things on the windshield. R.S. 32:361.1(B) forbids any object or material affixed to the front windshield or front side windows that…

Maine has no statute that names dash cameras and no list of devices allowed on the windshield, so the question is decided by effect rather than by permission. Under 29-A MRS §2082(2) a…

Maryland has no dash camera statute at all, so a dash cam is governed by the general windshield-obstruction rule at Md. Transp. § 21-1104. Subsection (c)(1) makes it an offense to…

Massachusetts has no dash camera statute, but G.L. c. 90, section 13B expressly permits a device to be mounted on or affixed to a vehicle windshield, dashboard or centre console so…

Michigan sets no measured windshield zone for a camera and no sticker size limit. What it regulates is the screen. MCL 257.708b(1) prohibits operating a motor vehicle with a television…

Minnesota answers the dash cam question with a closed list rather than a measurement. Minn. Stat. 169.71, subd. 1(a)(2) bars any object suspended between the driver and the windshield…

Mississippi has no dash cam statute and no windshield-mounting rule that a camera can breach. The only provision that regulates what may sit on a Mississippi windshield, Miss. Code…

Missouri has no windshield obstruction statute at all, so nothing in the Revised Statutes tells you where a dash cam may sit. The one place a dash cam is expressly addressed is the…

Montana does not publish a closed list of things that may sit on a windshield. Section 61-9-405(2)(a), MCA, prohibits driving with a sign, poster, substance or other nontransparent…

Nebraska has no statute naming dash cams, camera mounts or navigation screens. A windshield-mounted camera is governed by Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-6,256, which bans an object placed or hung…

Nevada never wrote a dash-cam rule, so a windshield camera is governed by the general obstruction section. NRS 484D.435(1) bars driving with "any sign, poster or other nontransparent…

New Hampshire never wrote a list of items you may stick to a windshield. RSA 265:95 instead bans driving with any sign, poster, sticker or other nontransparent material upon or…

New Jersey gives dash cams no windshield allowance. R.S. 39:3-74 forbids driving with any sign, poster, sticker or other non-transparent material on the front windshield, wings…

New York grants a dash cam no designated place on the windshield. Vehicle and Traffic Law section 375(30) makes it unlawful to operate a motor vehicle with any object placed or hung in…

North Carolina has no statute telling you where a dash cam may be mounted. Part 9 of Article 3 of Chapter 20 regulates the windshield only for tint and for safety glass, and nothing in…

North Dakota never legalised a windshield-mounted camera. Section 39-21-39 contains exactly two exceptions, one for windows behind the driver on a vehicle with both outside mirrors and…

Ohio is one of the few states whose windshield statute uses the word camera. R.C. 4513.24(B)(1) bans nontransparent material on the glass apart from a four inch by six inch decal in a…

Oklahoma has never legislated about dash cameras. Two other provisions decide where one may go, and they set different tests. 47 O.S. Section 12-422(B)(1) makes it unlawful to operate…

Oregon has no dash-cam statute and no list of items a driver is allowed to stick on the windshield. The governing provision is ORS 815.220, which makes it the offense of obstruction of…

Pennsylvania has never written a dash cam allowance into the Vehicle Code. 75 Pa.C.S. § 4524(a) bars nontransparent material on the front windshield that materially obstructs the…

Rhode Island never wrote the list of permitted windshield attachments that several states use to make dash cams expressly lawful. Nothing in the General Laws mentions a camera, a…

South Carolina never wrote a windshield allowance. Section 56-5-5000 simply forbids driving with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material on the front windshield, sidewings or…

South Dakota has no statute naming dash cameras and no designated windshield zone for them. What governs is a pair of old petty offenses in SDCL chapter 32-15, and they split on how…

Tennessee is one of the few states whose statute names the windshield as a lawful place to put a device. Section 55-8-199(b)(2)(A) permits a device "mounted on the vehicle's…

Texas grants no square inches of windshield to a camera. Transportation Code Section 547.613(a)(1) makes it a misdemeanor to operate a vehicle with an object or material placed on or…

Utah has no statute naming dash cameras, so the answer comes from three provisions that do apply. Utah Code Section 41-6a-1635(2)(a) prohibits operating a motor vehicle with an object…

Vermont has no dash cam statute, but it does have a statutory definition of a lawful mount, and that definition rules the windshield out. 23 V.S.A. § 1095b(a)(3) says a portable…

Virginia is one of the few states with a dash camera provision written into the vehicle code by name. Since 2023, subsection C of Va. Code 46.2-1054 says the obstructed-view law does…

Washington has no statute that names dash cameras, so mounting one is governed by a single test in RCW 46.37.410(2): no sign, poster or other nontransparent material may sit on the…

West Virginia never publishes a list of objects allowed on a windshield, so a dash cam is not measured against one. W. Va. Code §17C-15-36(a) forbids driving with any sign, poster or…

Wisconsin never legislated dash cams, so the governing rule is the windshield rule, and Wisconsin's version is a closed list. Wis. Admin. Code § Trans 305.34(6) bars any posters…

Wyoming does not publish a closed list of things you may stick to a windshield. W.S. 31-5-955(a) prohibits driving with any sign, poster or other material or substance upon, or crack…