SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1202

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ROORDA (Sponsor), WRIGHT (159), WILDBERGER, McGHEE AND MEADOWS (Co-sponsors).

                  Pre-filed December 29, 2005 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 307, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to failure to lower tinted windows, with a penalty provision.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 307, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 307.174, to read as follows:

            307.174. 1. A person commits the crime of failure to lower tinted windows if such person is an occupant of a motor vehicle and fails to fully lower any tinted windows, over which such person has automated or manual control, upon the approach of a law enforcement officer who has stopped the vehicle to investigate a traffic violation or other criminal offense.

            2. Failure to lower tinted windows is a class C misdemeanor.

            3. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a municipality from enacting a local ordinance which creates the ordinance violation of failure to lower tinted windows.

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