Window Tint Limits

Alabama's tint chapter carries its own numbers, so nothing has to be looked up in an inspection regulation. Section 32-5C-2(a)(2) forbids operating a vehicle registered in this state…

Alaska sets its window tint limits by regulation rather than by statute. Under 13 AAC 04.223 the driver and front passenger side windows must still pass at least 70 percent of light…

Arizona lets the front side windows carry film with a light transmission of thirty-three percent plus or minus three percent, so a front window measuring down to 30 percent still…

On 1994 and newer vehicles Arkansas allows aftermarket film down to 25 percent net light transmission on the side windows and side wings beside the driver and immediately behind, and…

California never publishes a "legal VLT" for front side windows because it does not permit aftermarket darkening there at all. Vehicle Code section 26708(d) allows only clear…

Colorado sets a single light transmittance figure for every window except the windshield. Under C.R.S. § 42-4-227 (1)(a)(I) no window other than the windshield may allow less than…

Connecticut sets one light transmission figure and applies it to every side window: not less than thirty-five per cent plus or minus three per cent, under CGS § 14-99g(c)(1) for the…

Delaware allows window tint with a visible light transmission of 50% or greater on the side windows immediately right and left of the driver and on the forward side wings, and places…

The District sets some of the tightest window tint limits in the country. Under D.C. Code § 50-2207.02, a car that is not a mini-van must let at least 70% of light through the front…

Florida sets a separate light transmittance floor for each piece of glass rather than one statewide number. Side wings and side windows forward of or next to the driver must pass at…

Georgia tightened its tint law on July 1, 2026. The front side and door windows must now pass at least 28 percent of light, plus or minus 3 percent, down from 32 percent, and for the…

Hawaii allows sun screening film on the front side windows and wing vents only if the film and the glass together pass a light transmittance of no less than thirty-five per cent plus…

Idaho Code § 49-944 lets you put nonreflective film on the front side windows and rear window down to 35% light transmission, and on the windows behind the driver down to 20%, with a…

Illinois bans tinted film on the front windshield except a nonreflective strip running no more than 6 inches down from the top, and bars any window treatment on the windows immediately…

Indiana applies a single figure to the whole car. Ind. Code § 9-19-19-4(c) makes it an infraction to drive a vehicle whose windshield, side wing, front-door side window or rear back…

Iowa Code section 321.438(2) bans operating a vehicle whose front windshield, front side windows or front sidewings are excessively dark or reflective, and it leaves the number to the…

Kansas sets a single figure for tint: under K.S.A. 8-1749a(a)(3) the total light transmission must not be less than 35% wherever a sun screening device is used with an existing one…

Kentucky draws its tint line at 35 percent light transmittance on the side wings and side windows forward of or beside the driver, and 18 percent on any window behind the driver, with…

Louisiana lets you tint a passenger car to 25 percent light transmission on the front side windows, 25 percent on the side windows behind the driver and 12 percent on the rearmost…

Maine sets one number for aftermarket tint: a side or rear window may not allow a light transmittance of less than 35% net of glass and material, under 29-A MRS §1916(1)(C). The…

Maryland caps aftermarket window tint at 35% light transmittance, and on a Class A passenger car that limit applies to every window on the vehicle, rear glass included. Light trucks…

Massachusetts lets you put aftermarket film on the front side windows, the rear side windows and the rear window only if it transmits at least 35 per cent of visible light and reflects…

Michigan does not set a visible light transmission percentage for any window. MCL 257.709(1)(a) instead bans film outright on the front windshield and on the side windows and sidewings…

Minnesota applies one light-transmittance figure to the whole car. Minn. Stat. 169.71, subd. 4(3) bars driving a Minnesota-registered vehicle whose side or rear windows pass less than…

Mississippi sets one light transmittance figure for the whole car: every window must pass 28% or more, and the proof is a Department of Public Safety label glued to the lower left…

Missouri regulates exactly two pieces of glass. Under Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 307.173.1 the front sidewing vents and the windows immediately to the left and right of the driver must…

Montana sets its tint limits in 61-9-405(4), MCA. Front side windows must pass at least 24% light transmission and reflect no more than 35%. Rear and behind-the-front-seat side windows…

Nebraska requires at least 35 percent light transmission through the front side windows and at least 20 percent through the rear window and the side windows behind the front seat, and…

Nevada allows aftermarket film on the two windows beside the driver only if the glass and film together pass at least 35 percent of the light striking them, with a statutory tolerance…

RSA 266:58-a makes it unlawful to sell, inspect, install or drive with after market tinting on the windshield of a vehicle registered in New Hampshire, with one exception: a strip no…

New Jersey publishes no legal darkness for the front of a passenger car, because add-on tint on the windshield and on the two front side windows is prohibited outright. R.S. 39:3-74…

New York requires at least 70 percent light transmittance through the front windshield, both front side windows and the rear window under Vehicle and Traffic Law section 375(12-a)(b)…

North Carolina allows aftermarket tint on any window except the windshield down to 35% total light transmission, with reflectance of 20% or less and no red, yellow or amber film. The…

North Dakota sets its tint limits in a single subsection, N.D.C.C. § 39-21-39(4). Anything displayed, affixed or applied to the windshield must leave a light transmittance of at least…

Ohio splits its tint law across two instruments. R.C. 4513.241 creates the offence and the penalties but contains no percentage at all, and the numbers live in the Director of Public…

Oklahoma lets you tint side and rear windows only if the glass plus film still passes at least twenty-five percent of light and reflects no more than twenty-five percent, under 47 O.S…

Oregon lets you tint the side and rear windows of a car only down to 35 percent total light transmittance, measured through the glass and the film together, and the film itself must…

Pennsylvania sets no separate front-and-rear tint percentages the way most states do. 75 Pa.C.S. § 4524(e)(1) simply bars driving with any sun screening device that does not permit a…

Rhode Island runs one of the tightest tint rules in the country and it is not graduated. R.I. Gen. Laws chapter 31-23.3 bans sunscreening material outright and then exempts film that…

South Carolina sets one figure and applies it almost everywhere. Under S.C. Code Section 56-5-5015(C) and (D)(2), after-market film on the front side wings, the side windows beside and…

South Dakota sets a 35 percent combined light-transmittance floor for the windshield, side wing vents and the side windows forward of or beside the driver under SDCL 32-15-2.4, and a…

Tennessee sets a single figure for every window on a car: aftermarket film may not drop visible light transmittance below 35 percent, and nothing except the manufacturer's standard…

Texas allows film down to 25 percent light transmission on both front side windows and on the windshield strip, with a matching ceiling of 25 percent luminous reflectance, and it sets…

Utah Code Section 41-6a-1635(1) bars operating a motor vehicle with a windshield allowing less than 70% light transmittance or a front side window allowing less than 35%, with no more…

Vermont does not set a percentage for window tint. 23 V.S.A. § 1125(a) prohibits operating a motor vehicle with any material painted or adhered on or over the windshield, the vent…

Virginia lets you tint front side windows down to 50 percent light transmittance and rear side and rear windows down to 35 percent, and no window film anywhere on the car may reflect…

Washington lets you tint every window except the windshield down to 24 percent light transmission, with outward reflectance capped at 35 percent, but RCW 46.37.430(5)(a) measures that…

West Virginia sets one light transmission number for almost every window on a passenger car: 35 percent. W. Va. Code §17C-15-36a requires the front side wings and the side windows…

Wisconsin puts its tint numbers in the Department of Transportation's equipment rules, not in the statute book. Aftermarket film on the vent and front side windows must still pass at…

Wyoming sets a single 28% light transmission floor for every window on an enclosed vehicle registered or required to be registered here, front sides and rear alike, under W.S…