Current Status Bill Number:4572 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19980204 Primary Sponsor:Jennings All Sponsors:Jennings, Barfield, Cobb-Hunter, Baxley, M. Hines, Seithel, R. Smith, Mason, Littlejohn, Leach, Wilkins, Haskins, Cromer, Walker, Hamilton, Phillips, J. Hines, Stoddard, Gamble, Whatley, Wilder, Beck, Wilkes, Boan, Witherspoon, Tripp and Felder Drafted Document Number:kgh\15374cm.98 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Education and Public Works Committee 21 HEPW Subject:Sunscreen devices, motor vehicle tinted windows; factory or manufacturer revisions
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House 19980423 Co-Sponsor removed (Rule 5.2) by Rep. A. Harris
House 19980204 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-5015, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO SUNSCREEN DEVICES, SO AS TO REVISE THE COMBINED LIGHT TRANSMISSION OF THE SUNSCREENING DEVICE WITH THE FACTORY OR MANUFACTURER INSTALLED SUNSCREENING MATERIAL THAT MAY BE INSTALLED ON A MOTOR VEHICLE'S SIDE WINGS, OR SIDE WINDOWS AND REAR WINDOWS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-5-5015(C) and (D) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 462 of 1992, is further amended to read:
"(C) A single sunscreening device may be installed on the side wings or side windows, or both, located at the immediate right and left of the driver and the side windows behind the driver. The sunscreening device must be nonreflective and the combined light transmission of the sunscreening device with the factory or manufacturer installed sunscreening material must not be less than twenty-seven fifty percent.
(D)(1) A sunscreening device to be applied to the rear-most window must be nonreflective and have a light transmission of not less than twenty twenty-seven percent. If a sunscreening device is used on the rear-most window, one right and one left outside rearview mirror is required.
(2) Beginning January 1, 1993 1999, a single sunscreening device to be applied to the rear-most window must be nonreflective and the combined light transmission of the sunscreening device with the factory or manufacturer installed sunscreening material must not be less than twenty-seven fifty percent. If a sunscreening device is used on the rear-most window, one right and one left outside rearview mirror is required.
(3) A motor vehicle with a sunscreening device which complied with the requirements of item (1) at the time of installation is not considered to be in violation of this section on January 1, 1993 1999, so long as the original sunscreen device is in place."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.