ridiculous fine for window tint
i have a window tint ticket and i just called to find out the price and its $245 for my first offense.wtf? im so fucking pissed. i figured it'd be cost maybe a third of that. does anyone have experience with any of these tickets? i know i earned the ticket and have to pay it, but does this not seem retardedly expensive to anyone else?
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It varies by city or county but i'm positive there is a maxium fine for each violation set by the state, at least for moving violations anyways so not sure about tint...Originally Posted by MKIV VR6
i have a window tint ticket and i just called to find out the price and its $245 for my first offense.
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I thought GA did away with the tint law again. I know it was here, went away, then came back, and I thought it was gone again
95 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon Limited
Suwannee, Ga is $92 for tint and i thought that was ridiculously high, oh well!
It's been back and it's still the exact same law as before except it applies to EVERYONE that enters into Georgia, not just residents.
I hope it goes again.
holy shit!, 7 years ago my first speeding ticket for 22 over was only $55, friend of mine just got a ticket in almost the same place a few weeks ago by the same exact bike cop for 21 over and his ticket was $164...its amazing how much shit has gone up through the years that quick, never gotten a tint ticket though, although i did pay $105 for a failure to obey traffic device ticket last year, and thought that was a little retarded
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well crap
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I see it two ways, i fully understand and respect the safety concern but if I drive my car that's not required to have emmisions in it's registered county to a county that does require emmisions am I breaking any laws? If I buy a used car in Florida I don't have to pay sales tax because i'm a Georgia resident and we don't pay taxes on used car purchases but Florida does. Should I be required to pay the taxes down there? So why if a car is legal in it's registered state be required to abide to another states ruling...of course it can be argued MULTIPLE ways.
I have friends with duallies and race trailers that don't race down here any more because they get pulled over with their black tint and harassed every time...before they were always let go because of the out of state tags, they're from Indiana, it's not like they're running drugs down here to Dixie Speedway!!! lolol. Now they would be required to remove it on the side of the highway.
That doesn't seem right, when I lived in Arizona they allowed a much darker tint. I knew I had to change it when I moved here and I did. But if I was visiting, how can they give me a ticket for something that is legal in my home state? Again, I don't know the law.
they can. they removed the old tint law because it only applied to ga residents. the new one applies to everyone.
correct, someone with enough money and a great attorney pulled some strings and argued the previous tint law was unconstitutional because it only applied to residents....and they won. The tint law went away for a year or so while it was run back through the steps and rewritten to apply to ALL applicable vehicles.
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Note : New law went into effect that can be enforced on out of state vehicles as well as Georgia registered vehicles. Penalty is up to $1000 and/or 12 months in jail as a misdemeanor.
On Jun 8, 2004, the Georgia Surpreme Court threw out GA's tint law since it discriminated against GA residents by not applying to non-residents. Look for the non-resident exemption to be repealed next year which would reinstate the tint law.
This can have ramifications for other states who exempt non-residents from their tint laws. Legislation was sponsored in the 2004 session to remove the non-resident exemption but failed to pass.
wow. they're not playing games.
go to court if you can. i did with my last one and the judge droped the ticket. told her i purchased the car from a private buyer with the tint and removed it the day of the ticket
i think tint law is the dumbest law made. Its cool if they made it a law but i really think its unnecessary for the pigsters to be so anal about it.
just my opinion.
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Depends on the county/city...some only do 1/2 half off if you remove it.
The day you're in uniform and have to walk up to a vehicle after pulling it over and can't see anything that's going on inside you'll understand...you better hope your hand is running on the quarter panel so you may have a chance to push off away from the spray of bullets coming through the side window at you. Think of things in other people views or situations and you'll understand what they have to deal with...every day every time they are just trying to do their job
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The day you're in uniform and have to walk up to a vehicle after pulling it over and can't see anything that's going on inside you'll understand...you better hope your hand is running on the quarter panel so you may have a chance to push off away from the spray of bullets coming through the side window at you. Think of things in other people views or situations and you'll understand what they have to deal with...every day every time they are just trying to do their job
i know its their job but honestly a $1,000 ticket for tint? idk i guess from their point of view is understandable why they dont like dark tint...but i also dont think tint is all that dangerous. idk i agree with the law but not how they deal with it...
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Try going to another country, you think the US has strict fines? Half the shit I see on streets here could get your license taken away for LIFE in some European countries. FOR LIFE...no license...forever. Think about it.
The day you're in uniform and have to walk up to a vehicle after pulling it over and can't see anything that's going on inside you'll understand...you better hope your hand is running on the quarter panel so you may have a chance to push off away from the spray of bullets coming through the side window at you. Think of things in other people views or situations and you'll understand what they have to deal with...every day every time they are just trying to do their job
this is really stupid... someone that is going to shoot a cop.. isnt going to stop when they pull you over. Also if someone was doing something illegal they would just constantly pay the fine and leave the tint. Note that lots of cop cars have rediculously dark tint cops = hypocrits
i was in gwinnett
I had a client that received a ticket in Fulton and the fine was 1k the sad thing was she had just bought the car from a dealership a couple days earlier and asked about the window tint being dark and they told her it was legal and she shouldnt have any problems
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Always have something like that in writing...could easily mail a copy of that ticket to the dealeship as a bill
Could be a repost but get it tinted before your court date, bring the receipt to the judge and it could get dismissed.
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That rear tint almost got me a ticket. Damn Paulding County Sheriff. Luckily they just wanted to fuck around with some one and use there new toy to test the tint so they let me go.Could be a repost but get it tinted before your court date, bring the receipt to the judge and it could get dismissed.
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jason I worked at a dealership for 2yrs you're not telling me anything I don't already know... this was a little blue haired lady
Shouldn't you be working???
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Rick has 2 pending against him... one was $85.00 in Jefferson and we're waiting to hear about the other. He took the tint off the front 2 windows hoping they would at least cut the ticket in half.. who knows.
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I have never been told anything about my tint(20%).
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What color is your car? Lighter colors tend to make the tint look darker. i had zero problems with my dark blue 300zx and it had a light mirror on it and never once at an issue...my white integra on the other hand always got harassed with the 20% i had on it. Then when i went from white to black wheels i got pulled over again by the same cop the same week! haha. Never once got a ticket though until i was hit by a rolling road block in friday rush hour traffic...gwinnett setup at an intersection just for seat belts, child seats, and window tint. Minding my own business, sunroof open, i get a knock on the window saying pull over...haha. I stripped the tint, got half off the fine then ONE (1) week later i see the front page of the paper regarding the tint law being thrown out after it was ruled unconstitutional...ONE WEEK! lol.
I really didn't ask you to tell me your life story.. but thanks.. lol. j/p my car is grey.. so it doesn't look that dark.. but ive seen the same % on another darker car and it looked much darker... thanks for informing all the noobs that didn't know...
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white.. look at the sig or advitar
errr, the sig is a quote and the avatar looks like an oriental rug
start working Jason... better yet can you save me a little debbies snack cake??
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whats even more stupid about tint... You can get pulled over and arrested for not having insurance and you will not be fingerprinted by GA law, but if you have illegal tint on your car, you can be fingerprinted.
I'm just that guy that spends all his time printing.... T-shirts, banners, vinyl, etc.
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i have a window tint ticket and i just called to find out the price and its $245 for my first offense.
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Damn bro, you got ass raped. I don't see how regular people can get tickets for shit the police do all the time. Undercover cops got major tint on their windows.
read the laws, they don't apply to state vehicles: ie. police cars or those used for police activity, school buses, etc...
EXACTLY!!!
yeah, my shit is pushed in pretty good. lol. i understand the law and it is not a pointless law, but the fines make no sense to me. undercover cops wont get pulled over by cops because they are govt vehicles, but i do know a cop who has illegal tint on his personal car. damn double standards.
just go to the eye doctor and get it as a prescription or whatever.
i got 2 tickets pending rite now for window tint... one was in jackson county/jefferson, and the other one was in braselton, ga. the jefferson one was $88. and the officer that gave me the one for braselton said that if i got my windows fixed, he would drop it, so $40 later, my windows are fixed and no fine
I have been stopped twice by the GSP and both tickets were $250 each, kind of funny that it only cost $125 to get done
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