MD laws and Repair Orders

[CoastieCosta567]

So apparently if you get pulled over for your tint and get a repair order and you put it back on after you take it off to get signed off and you get pulled over again, well that pisses a cop off and ya get slammed with a Must Appear Charge along with some other fines and such. This charge come to find out is a Jail-able offense, that I should "lawyer up" for. So why is it that MD is so rediculous about this all of a sudden I mean I was floored when the officer told me this now I have day in and day out agony of awaiting my court date to see if I am going to be a free man. Let alone atleast $1k+ is lawyer fees and fines sad sad day. Ps Happy Easter !

Why cant cops do something useful god I hate MD and wish I could leave this ****hole seems its just getting worse. Lets pick on people with nice cars that stick out and punish them, but leave the Mexican ****mobiles alone.

Sucks Mae, I really wish u luck and feel ya, that is not right. Just one question, what does ethnic background have to do with anything? Hmmmmm, take it out on the system, not pointing the finger at others. Passing the hot potato around does not fix the issue. Cooling it, and eating it does.

[WormGod]

I went through the same thing years ago. On my VX even. But, when I had my repair order, I just had the tint replaced with "legal" tint. Understand, you can pretty much go as dark as you want on an SUV in MD, just follow the rules on the 2 side front windows and you will be left alone. That is the key.

I would almost agree with you on how silly it is to be petty about tint, but i guess putting yourself in their shoes and knowing you have to approach a vehicle that you can not see into because of tint makes one "overly cautious". Nothing like getting pulled over for a tail light out at gun point because your tint is dark and they have no clue what they are getting into. *shrug*

[Osteomata]

I went through the same thing years ago. On my VX even. But, when I had my repair order, I just had the tint replaced with "legal" tint. Understand, you can pretty much go as dark as you want on an SUV in MD, just follow the rules on the 2 side front windows and you will be left alone. That is the key.

I would almost agree with you on how silly it is to be petty about tint, but i guess putting yourself in their shoes and knowing you have to approach a vehicle that you can not see into because of tint makes one "overly cautious". Nothing like getting pulled over for a tail light out at gun point because your tint is dark and they have no clue what they are getting into. *shrug*

"Roll your windows down sir" from the cop car PA system solves this problem, doesn't it? I can't recall seeing anyone leave their windows up when pulled over. And since they don't seem to require the back windows to be rolled down, then why is the law only restricitve for the front to side windows? Almost sounds backwards, or at best poorly thought out and unnecesarry.. Me thinks this is was a classic legislative case of a solutoin looking for a non-existant problem and relying on the "won't anyone think of the heroic police officers" meme to negate criticism and opposition. Comply citizen! is problably the strongest argument the law and order crowd has for this.