An Act To Repeal the Law Regulating Reflective and Tinted Glass in Automobiles
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0001
Committee: Transportation
Sponsors: ESPLING, BRAKEY
Amends: 23 MRSA §1973, 29-A MRSA §1756, 29-A MRSA §1916

Legislative Document
No. 1
H.P. 3
House of Representatives, January 4, 2017
An Act To Repeal the Law Regulating Reflective and Tinted Glass 
in Automobiles
Reference to the Committee on Transportation suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative ESPLING of New Gloucester.  (BY REQUEST)
Cosponsored by Senator BRAKEY of Androscoggin.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  23 MRSA §1973, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1995, c. 65, Pt. A, §63 and 
affected by §153 and Pt. C, §15, is further amended to read: 
3.  Tolls.  Tolls, or the fixing of tolls, is not rulemaking and is not subject to 
supervision or regulation by any state commission, board or agency.  Subject to 
subsection 4, the authority may fix and revise from time to time tolls for the use of the 
turnpike and the different parts or sections of the turnpike, and charge and collect the 
tolls, and contract with any person, partnership, association or corporation desiring the 
use of any part of the turnpike, including the right-of-way adjoining the paved portion.  
The tolls must be so fixed and adjusted as to provide a fund at least sufficient with other 
revenues of the turnpike, if any, to pay for each fiscal year:  
A.    The cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the turnpike, and providing and 
maintaining reasonable reserves for those costs; 
B.    The bonds and the interest on those bonds, and all sinking fund requirements, 
and other requirements provided by the resolution authorizing issuance of the bonds 
or by the trust indenture or loan or a security agreement as those bonds, interest, 
sinking fund requirements and other requirements become due; 
C.    Those sums for the purpose of maintaining, constructing or reconstructing access 
roads or portions of access roads that have been requested by the department and in 
the sole discretion of the authority are from time to time determined to warrant the 
expenditure of turnpike revenues; and 
D.    The cost of maintaining, constructing or reconstructing interchanges. 
The authority may use any method for assessing and collecting tolls, including but not 
limited to toll tickets, barrier toll facilities, billing accounts, commuter passes and 
electronic recording or identification devices.  The display of a recording or identification 
device issued or authorized by the authority for these purposes on or near the windshield 
of a motor vehicle is not a violation of a law or rule, including but not limited to Title 
29-A, sections 1916 and section 2082, unless the device is attached in a way that 
obstructs the driver's clear view of the highway or an intersecting highway. 
Sec. 2.  29-A MRSA §1756, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. A, §2 and 
affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read: 
3.  Windows.  In addition to the standards set forth in subsection 1, windows must 
meet the standards of sections section 1915 and 1916. 
Sec. 3.  29-A MRSA §1916, as amended by PL 2009, c. 251, §§6 and 7, is 
repealed. 
SUMMARY 
This bill repeals the law regulating the use of reflective and tinted glass windows in 
automobiles.