Virginia Administrative Code › Title 19 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE › Chapter 70 - MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY INSPECTION REGULATIONS › Part V - Inspection Requirements for Trucks and Other Vehicles Over 10,000 Pounds (GVWR) › Section 19VAC30-70-580 - Glass and glazing

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Motor
				  vehicles may be inspected without windshields, side glasses, or any kind of
				  glazing except that any motor vehicle other than a motorcycle that was
				  manufactured, assembled, or reconstructed after July 1, 1970, must be equipped
				  with a windshield. If glass or other glazing is installed, it must be
				  inspected. If no windshield is installed, see
				  19VAC30-70-50
				  C for location of the sticker.
B.
				  Inspect for and reject if:
1. Any motor
				  vehicle manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1936, or any bus or school
				  bus manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1935, is not equipped throughout
				  with safety glass, or other safety glazing material. (This requirement includes
				  slide-in campers used on pickups or trucks, caps, or covers used on pickup
				  trucks, motor homes, and vans.)
2.
				  Any safety glass or glazing used in a motor vehicle is not of an approved type
				  and properly identified (refer to approved equipment section). (Replacement
				  safety glass installed in any part of a vehicle other than the windshield need
				  not bear a trademark or name, provided the glass consists of two or more sheets
				  of glass separated by a glazing material, and provided the glass is cut from a
				  piece of approved safety glass, and provided the edge of the glass can be
				  observed.)
3. Any glass at any
				  location where glass is used is cracked or broken so that it is likely to cut
				  or injure a person in the vehicle.
4. Windshield has any cloudiness more than
				  three inches above the bottom, one inch inward from the outer borders, one inch
				  down from the top, or one inch inward from the center strip. The bottom of the
				  windshield shall be defined as the point where the top of the dash contacts the
				  windshield.
5. Any distortion or
				  obstruction that interferes with a driver's vision; any alteration has been
				  made to a vehicle that obstructs the driver's clear view through the
				  windshield. This may include large objects hanging from the inside mirror or
				  mounted to the windshield, cell phone mounts, GPS devices, CB radios or
				  tachometers mounted on the dash or windshield, hood scoops, and other
				  ornamentation on or in front of the hood that is not transparent.
a. Any hood scoop installed on any motor
				  vehicle manufactured for the year 1990 or earlier model year cannot exceed
				  2-1/4 inches high at its highest point measured from the junction of the
				  dashboard and the windshield.
b.
				  Any hood scoop installed on any motor vehicle manufactured for the year 1991 or
				  subsequent model year cannot exceed 1-1/8 inches high at its highest point
				  measured from the junction of the dashboard and the windshield.
NOTE: Antennas, transponders, and similar devices must not
					 be mounted more than 152 mm (six inches) below the upper edge of the
					 windshield. These devices must be located outside the area swept by the
					 windshield wipers, and outside the driver's sight lines to the road and highway
					 signs and signals.
NOTE: Vehicles 10,001 pounds (GVWR) or more, submitted for
					 inspection, with a navigational device, video event recording device, or a
					 crash avoidance camera mounted on the interior of the windshield, when the
					 entire device is mounted not more than four inches below the upper edge of the
					 area swept by the windshield wipers or any other location outside the area
					 swept by the windshield wipers, shall be issued an approval sticker if no other
					 violations are detected.
6. Windshield glass, on the driver's side,
				  has any scratch more than 1/4 inch in width and six inches long within the area
				  covered by the windshield wiper blade, excluding the three inches above the
				  bottom of the windshield. A windshield wiper that remains parked within the
				  driver's side windshield wiper area shall be rejected.
EXCEPTION: Do not reject safety grooves designed to clean
					 wiper blades if the grooves do not extend upward from the bottom of the
					 windshield more than six inches at the highest point.
7. There is a pit, chip, or star crack larger
				  than 3/4 inch in diameter at any location in the windshield above the topmost
				  portion of the steering wheel except the two-inch border at each
				  side.
8. At any location above the
				  topmost portion of the steering wheel excluding a two-inch border at the top
				  and one-inch border at the sides there is:
a.
				  Any crack over 1/4 inch in width.
b. Any crack 1/4 inch or less in width
				  intersected by another crack.
c.
				  Any damage area 3/4 inch or less in diameter if within three inches of any
				  other damage area.
9. Any
				  sticker is on the windshield other than an official one required by law, or
				  permitted by the superintendent. Authorization is hereby granted for stickers
				  or decals, to include those required by any county, town, or city, measuring
				  not more than 2-1/2 inches in width and four inches in length to be placed in
				  the blind spot behind the rear view mirror. The normal location for any
				  required county, town, or city sticker or decal is adjacent to the right side
				  of official inspection sticker when viewed from inside the vehicle. The top
				  edge of the sticker is to be approximately four inches from the bottom of the
				  windshield. The left side edge adjacent to the official inspection sticker
				  shall not be more than 1/4-inch from the right edge of the official inspection
				  sticker when viewed from inside the vehicle. Valid Commercial Vehicle Safety
				  Alliance (CVSA) inspection decals, or similar commercial vehicle inspection
				  decal issued by local law enforcement, may be placed at the bottom right corner
				  of the windshield when viewed from inside the vehicle. The top edge of such
				  decals are to be approximately four inches from the bottom of the windshield
				  when viewed from inside the vehicle and are to be located outside the area
				  swept by the windshield wipers.
Any sticker or decal required by the laws of any other
					 state or the District of Columbia and displayed upon the windshield of a
					 vehicle submitted for inspection in this state is permitted by the
					 superintendent, provided the vehicle is currently registered in that
					 jurisdiction and the sticker is displayed in a manner designated by the issuing
					 authority and has not expired. This includes vehicles with dual registration,
					 i.e., Virginia and the District of Columbia.
NOTE: Toll transponder devices may be affixed to the inside
					 center of the windshield at the roof line just above the rear view mirror. If
					 space does not allow, then it may be affixed to the immediate right of the
					 mirror at the roof line.
NOTE: A licensed motor vehicle dealer may apply one
					 transponder sticker no larger than one inch by four inches and one barcode
					 sticker no larger than three inches by four inches to the driver's side edge of
					 a vehicle's windshield to be removed upon the sale or lease of the vehicle
					 provided that it does not extend below the AS-1 line. In the absence of an AS-1
					 line, the sticker cannot extend more than three inches downward from the top of
					 the windshield.
NOTE: Any vehicle displaying an expired sticker or decal on
					 its windshield at the time of inspection, excluding a rejection sticker, shall
					 not be issued an approval sticker unless the owner or operator authorizes its
					 removal. A rejection sticker will be issued versus an involuntary
					 removal.
10. Sunshading
				  material attached to the windshield extends more than three inches downward
				  from the top of the windshield, unless authorized by the Virginia Department of
				  Motor Vehicles and indicated on the vehicle registration.
NOTE: Sunshading material on the windshield displaying
					 words, lettering, numbers or pictures that do not extend below the AS-1 line
					 are permitted.
NOTE: Vehicles with logos made into the glass at the
					 factory that meet federal standards will pass state inspection.
11. Any sunscreening material is
				  scratched, distorted, wrinkled or obscures or distorts clear vision through the
				  glazing.
12. Front side windows
				  have cloudiness above three inches from the bottom of the glass, or other
				  defects that affect the driver's vision or one or more cracks which permit one
				  part of the glass to be moved in relation to another part. Wind silencers,
				  breezes or other ventilator adaptors are not made of clear transparent
				  material.
13. Glass in the left
				  front door cannot be lowered so a hand signal can be given. (This does not
				  apply to vehicle equipped with approved turn signals which were not designed or
				  manufactured for left front glass to be lowered.) If either front door has the
				  glass removed and material inserted in place of the glass which could obstruct
				  the driver's vision.
Exception: Sunscreening material is permissible if the
					 vehicle is equipped with a mirror on each side.
14. Any sticker or other obstruction is on
				  either front side window, rear side windows, or rear windows. (The price label,
				  fuel economy label and the buyer's guide required by federal statute and
				  regulations to be affixed to new or used vehicles by the manufacturer shall
				  normally be affixed to one of the rear side windows.) If a vehicle only has two
				  door windows, the labels may be affixed to one of these windows. If a vehicle
				  does not have any door or side windows, the labels may be temporarily affixed
				  to the right side of the windshield until the vehicle is sold to the first
				  purchaser.
NOTE: A single sticker no larger than 20 square inches in
					 area, if such sticker is totally contained within the lower five inches of the
					 glass in the rear window or a single sticker or decal no larger than 10 square
					 inches located in an area not more than three inches above the bottom and not
					 more than eight inches from the rearmost edge of either front side window, is
					 permissible and should not be rejected.
Do not reject a tractor truck having a gross vehicle weight
					 rating of 26,001 pounds or more equipped with one optically grooved clear
					 plastic wide angle lens affixed to the right front side window. Such wide angle
					 lens shall not extend upward from the bottom of the window opening more than
					 six inches or backward from the front of the window opening more than eight
					 inches.
15. Rear window is
				  clouded or distorted so that the driver does not have a view 200 feet to the
				  rear.
EXCEPTIONS: The following are permissible if the vehicle is
					 equipped with a mirror on each side:
a. There is attached to one rear window of
				  such motor vehicle one optically grooved clear plastic right angle rear view
				  lens, not exceeding 18 inches in diameter in the case of a circular lens or not
				  exceeding 11 inches by 14 inches in the case of a rectangular lens, which
				  enables the operator of the motor vehicle to view below the line of sight as
				  viewed through the rear window.
b.
				  There is affixed to the rear side windows, rear window or windows of such motor
				  vehicle any sticker or stickers, regardless of size.
c. There is affixed to the rear side windows,
				  rear window or windows of such motor vehicle a single layer of sunshading
				  material.
d. Rear side windows,
				  rear window or windows is clouded or distorted.