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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Not sure what difference it makes. Having your windows tinted is illegal because cops can't see inside the vehicle in case you get pulled over. Laws are still enforceable on private property and if a cop needs to pull you over in a parking lot he still needs to see inside your vehicle.
If cops happened upon a robbery at sobeys for example and a car with limo tinted windows was in front how could the officers possibly try to defer if that vehicle is dangerous? Get away car with armed individuals inside or some guy picking up his wife after her shift?
The car didn't just magically fall from space into the parking lot. It had to drive on public roads to get there and that's why I have no sympathy for people who get tickets for tinted windows.
Put yourself in a cops position pulling over a vehicle and having no clue what's inside. That would scare the crap out of me.
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The question is "Is it an offense to own a vehicle with tinted windows or is it an offense to drive a vehicle on a public road with tinted windows."
For example I can have a quad parked in my driveway but I can't drive a quad down the street. So if the vehicle is parked in a driveway with tinted windows I don't believe that is an offense. Hence where the parking lot question comes in. If the parking lot is treated as a non roadway then you don't have a car for lack of a better work is unsuitable to drive on a roadway. Having a unsuitable car to drive parked in a driveway is acceptable.