This was an article out of the Frederick New Post so I dont know if it will soon apply to the rest of MD.....

Area police to crack down on window tinting
Originally published February 26, 2008


Beginning on March 1, area law enforcement agencies will start an educational and enforcement initiative against illegal window tinting. Representatives of those agencies were on hand for a training session. Displaying a piece of auto glass with varying degrees of tint is Chris Koermer of the Maryland State Police Automotive Safety Enforcement Division.

Are your car windows legal?

35 percent or more of light must shine through the glass
Red, yellow and amber window tint is prohibited
Reflective window tint is prohibited
For information, visit http://www.marylandmva.com/AboutMVA, or call the Maryland State Police Automotive Safety Enforcement Division at 1-800-950-1MVA.

If your car windows are tinted, you might want to make sure they meet state regulations -- or you could face a citation and a $60 fine.
Starting next week, police in Frederick will be cracking down on vehicles with illegally tinted windows.

If a passenger's profile cannot be seen from outside a vehicle, the windows are too dark, according to Chris Koermer, assistant administrative officer of training at the Maryland State Police Automotive Safety Enforcement Division. State law requires that 35 percent of light must be able to shine through a vehicle's window.

Koermer and Doug Timmons, administrative officer of training, gave an hour-long training course Monday to officers from the Frederick, Brunswick and Thurmont police departments, deputies from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office and troopers stationed at the Maryland State Police Frederick barrack.

Though all police are trained on window-tinting, Koermer said, Monday's session offered a better understanding of current state regulations.

On Monday, police in Frederick will begin a 60-day initiative to target illegally tinted vehicle windows on roads throughout the county, Maryland State Police 1st. Sgt. Chris Sasse said.

Though he did not have an exact number, Sasse said county police recently noticed an increase in the number of cars on the road with illegally tinted windows.

"How do you feel if you can't see inside the vehicle you're sitting next to in traffic?" he asked. "It's a public safety issue."

If a police officer cannot see inside a car, Sasse said, the officer cannot tell if the passengers are handling drugs and/or weapons.

Sasse thinks combating illegally tinted windows could help cut down on crime, including drive-by shootings.

Sasse and several other officers in Monday's training session estimated about 25 percent of vehicles on the roads have tinted windows, many of them illegal.

During the training, Koermer explained a driver may be medically exempt from the state law on window tinting.

If that is the case, the person must carry a medical waiver from a physician, Koermer said. Out-of-state vehicles also are exempt.

Some trucks and vans are manufactured with tinted rear and passenger windows, Timmons said.

"Anything that's embedded in the glass, you can't do anything about," Timmons said. "We're speaking strictly of added-on material."

Koermer showed the officers a piece of glass sectioned by various percentages of tinting and explained how they can be identified.

"We're going to take a bite out of tinting," Sasse said

 

i understand, but if people r gonna illegal stuff, they will continue to do it. prohibiting tinting will not end drive by's or drug use. maybe they should crack down the streets before prohibiting tints. the problem will still be there. i just think its funny how people think little things such as tint, will help resolve the crime rate.

 

I had my windows checked in my mazda that i had which was tinted 35% and the cop said it read 32% due to the factory tint on the windows....

 

thank god im a police intern so when i tint my car i dont have to worry lol

 

absolutely ridiculous. worried about tint when people are dying n being shot up. i don't get it. no offense to anyone who's a police officer, but i hate the cops in the towns when the city of buffalo is 5 miles away and the news says every other night about how someone got shot, or how another place got robbed. n the town cops all think they r hard-asses. i just don't get it. a town cop pulled me over for a loud exhaust n i don't even have an am exhaust. its stock. he heard my intake and pulled me over. it's like c'mon now dude.

 

cops are ******** lol

 

yea thats going to stop gang wars, stupid politicians trying to make more money so they can add on to their million dollar homes while the normal person can even get approved for a new home, bullshit, the government can suck a dick.