A. A motor vehicle as specified herein shall not be registered thereafter unless such vehicle is equipped with safety glazing material or safety glass of a type prescribed in this section wherever glazing material or glass is used in doors, windows, and windshields. The foregoing provisions shall apply to all passenger cars, lightweight vehicles, buses, school buses, and church buses, but in respect to trucks, including truck-tractors, the requirements as to safety glazing material or safety glass shall apply to all glazing material and glass used in doors, windows, and windshields in the drivers' compartments of such vehicles.
B. The term "safety glazing materials" or "safety glass" means glazing materials or glass so constructed, treated, or combined with other materials as to reduce substantially, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by objects from exterior sources or by the safety glazing materials or safety glass when they may be cracked or broken.
C. All safety glazing materials and safety glass shall bear the manufacturer's trademark and the words "American Standard" or the letters "AS" followed by a number indicating the position in which the glass shall be used. Safety glazing materials or safety glass bearing the following identification markings shall be used in the designated locations:
1. Laminated safety glass marked "AS-1" is required in windshields and is acceptable at any other location in the vehicle;
2. Laminated safety glass marked "AS-14" is required in windshields and is acceptable at any other location in the vehicle;
3. Laminated or tempered safety glass marked "AS-2" is acceptable for use at any location in the vehicle except the windshield;
4. Laminated or tempered safety glass marked "AS-3" is acceptable anywhere on school buses except in windshields and side windows to the immediate right and left of the driver's location;
5. Rigid plastic safety glazing material marked "AS-4" or "AS-5” is acceptable anywhere on school buses except in windshields and side windows to the right or left of the driver's location;
6. Flexible plastic safety glazing material marked "AS-6" or "AS-7" is acceptable for use in rear windows of soft tops, flexible curtains, or readily removable windows; and
7. Wire glass marked "AS-8" or "AS-9" is acceptable for use in folding doors, standee and rearmost windows of buses, or windows to the rear of the driver in trucks and truck-tractors.
D. No person shall sell, or make replacements of glass, safety glazing materials, or safety glass on motor vehicles, or sell glass, safety glazing materials, or safety glass cut to size to fit windshields, door glass, or window glass of a motor vehicle in violation of the provisions of this title.
Added by Laws 1961, p. 409, § 12-406. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 411, § 58, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.