product or material to the amount of light which falls on it. 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3, 4 and 5 a person shall not: (a) Place, install, affix or apply upon the windshield or any side or rear window of a motor vehicle which is required to be registered in this State; or (b) Operate on any highway a motor vehicle required to be registered in this State on which there has been placed, installed, affixed or applied upon the windshield or any side or rear window of the motor vehicle, any transparent material which alters the color or reduces the light transmission of the windshield or side or rear window. 3. The prohibition set forth in subsection 2 does not apply to: (a) A window that is to the immediate right or left of the driver if the window is: (1) Nonreflective; and (2) Has a total light transmission through the combination, if any, of transparent material and safety glazing of not less than 35 percent with a tolerance of 7 percent. (b) A side window that is to the rear of the driver, or a rear window, if the vehicle has outside mirrors on each side that are located so as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway through each mirror for a distance of not less than 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle. (c) Any transparent material that is installed, affixed or applied to the topmost portion of the windshield if: (1) The bottom edge of the material is not less than 29 inches above the undepressed driver’s seat when measured from a point 5 inches in front of the bottom of the backrest with the driver’s seat in its rearmost and lowermost position with the vehicle on a level surface; and (2) The material is not red or amber in color. 4. The prohibition set forth in paragraph (b) of subsection 2 does not apply to a motor vehicle with a model year of 1993 or older, if transparent material was placed, installed, affixed or applied upon the windshield or any side or rear window of the motor vehicle before July 1, 1993. 5. This section does not prohibit the operation or sale of a motor vehicle which has a windshield or windows that are covered by or treated with any material, if the vehicle was sold when new or could have been sold when new with such material as standard or optional equipment without violating any federal statute or regulation governing the sale at the time of manufacture. 6. The Director may, by regulation, provide for exemptions and exceptions from the provisions of subsection 2. 7. For the purposes of NRS 483.473, a violation of subsection 2 is not a moving traffic violation. (Added to NRS by 1993, 2433) NRS 484.621 Windshield wipers. 1. Every motor vehicle, except motorcycles or mopeds, equipped with a windshield shall be equipped with a self-operating windshield wiper system which shall be so constructed as to be controlled by the driver. 2. The windshield wiper system with which the vehicle is equipped shall be maintained in good operating condition and capable of effectively clearing the windshield so as to provide clear vision through the windshield for the driver under all ordinary conditions of rain, snow or other moisture. 3. The wiper system shall be operated while the vehicle is being driven during conditions of rain, snow or other moisture which obstruct or reduce the driver’s clear view through the windshield. 4. Subsection 1 does not apply to highway maintenance vehicles, special mobile equipment, implements of husbandry, or vehicles manufactured before July 1, 1935, with adequate manually operated windshield wipers. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1209; A 1971, 1474; 1975, 205, 1081) NRS 484.623 Safety glazing material in motor vehicles and campers. 1. It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale or drive any motor vehicle manufactured after January 1, 1970, unless the vehicle is equipped with safety glazing material wherever glazing materials are used in the vehicle for partitions, doors, windows, windshields or wind deflectors. 2. It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any camper manufactured after January 1, 1970, or for any person to drive such a motor vehicle registered in this State which is equipped with a camper, unless the camper is equipped with safety glazing materials wherever glazing materials are used in outside windows and doors. As used in this subsection, “camper” means any structure designed to be loaded onto, or affixed to, a motor vehicle to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, travel or other use. 3. As used in this section, “safety glazing materials” means glazing materials so constructed, treated or combined with other materials as to reduce substantially, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by objects from exterior sources or by the safety glazing materials when they may be cracked or broken. 4. The Department shall establish specifications or requirements for approved safety glazing material which must not be lower in standard than those specifications or requirements for safety glazing material established by the American National Standards Institute Safety Code Z26.1-1950, and shall maintain a list of approved safety glazing material. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1208; A 1975, 33; 1985, 1953) NRS 484.625 Replacement of glazing materials. It is unlawful for any person to replace glazing materials used in partitions, doors, windows, windshields or wind deflectors in any motor vehicle, or in the outside windows or doors of any camper, as defined in NRS 484.623, with any glazing material other than safety glazing material, as defined in NRS 484.623. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1209) NRS 484.627 Certain vehicles to carry pot torches, lanterns or reflectors; display of devices when vehicle is disabled. 1. Every bus, truck and truck-tractor and every combination of vehicles 80 inches or more in overall width, except implements of husbandry, shall be equipped with at least three pot torches, three red electric lanterns or three red emergency reflectors. 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3, 4 and 5, when any such vehicle is disabled on any portion of the traveled portion of a highway during any time specified in NRS 484.545, such torches, lanterns or reflectors shall be placed as soon as possible as follows: (a) One at the traffic side of the vehicle, not more than 10 feet to the front or rear thereof; (b) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the rear of the disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by such vehicle; and (c) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the front of the vehicle in the center of the traffic lane occupied by such vehicle. 3. If the vehicle is disabled within 500 feet of a curve, crest of a hill or other obstruction to view, the torch, lantern or reflector to be placed in that direction shall be placed so as to afford ample warning to other users of the highway, but not less than 100 feet or more than 500 feet from the vehicle. 4. When any such vehicle is disabled on any portion of the traveled portion of a one-way highway with two or more traffic lanes during any time specified in NRS 484.545, such torches, lanterns or reflectors shall be placed as soon as possible as provided in subsection 2, except that the torch, lantern or reflector to be placed at the front of the vehicle shall be placed 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle. 5. When any such vehicle is disabled or parked off the traveled portion of a highway, but within 10 feet of such portion, during any time specified in NRS 484.545, such torches, lanterns or reflectors shall be placed as soon as possible as follows: (a) One at the traffic side of the vehicle not more than 10 feet to the rear of the vehicle; (b) One at a distance of approximately 100 feet to the

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