This means that the rear windows and the top four inches of the front windows can be as dark as the driver prefers, but cannot be more than 35 percent reflective.Īshley Simpson is a Community Service Trooper for the MSP Alpena Post. Michigan does not have a specification for the darkness of the window application, but does prohibit applications with a solar reflectivity greater than 35 percent. With the limited exception for medical necessity with a doctor’s prescription, it allows for tinting to be applied to the front windows as well. It also allows for the top four inches of the windshield and front side windows to have tint. The use of tinting is limited to the rear side windows and the rear window only. If you do not fall into the category of having a physician’s letter, the law that covers window tinting/applications is MCL 257.709.
MCL 257.683 states that an officer must have reasonable grounds to stop a car for an equipment violation. Also, a doctor’s letter only authorizes the patient to operate a vehicle with tinted windows and it could be illegal for anyone else without a physician’s letter to operate the vehicle with tinted windows. The tinted windows statute is routinely used improperly against Michigan motorists as a pretext to conduct a search for criminal activity, whether it is for drunk driving, drug offenses or other serious crimes.
Tinted window law in michigan license#
Be mindful that if you have a signed letter from a physician, it then should be listed as a restriction on your license with the Secretary of State which requires that you always drive a vehicle with tinted windows. To legally operate a vehicle with front side tinted windows, you need a physician’s letter. So there is not a medical necessity form that the state requires. However, the special window treatment or application shall not interfere with or obstruct the driver’s clear vision of the highway or an intersecting highway.” It states, “A special window treatment or application determined necessary by a physician or optometrist, for the protection of a person who is light sensitive or photosensitive, if the owner or operator of a motor vehicle has in possession a letter signed by a physician or optometrist, indicating that the special window treatment or application is a medical necessity.
Michigan law prohibits window tint on the windshield and the front seat side windows with the exception in MCL 257.709(3)(e).
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