The Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to close the loophole with the avoidance of a fine for tinting by guest drivers

The Russian Interior Ministry has prepared amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, which are designed to close a legislative loophole that allows some drivers not to pay fines for "blindly" tinted windows. This was reported by "Kommersant" on January 31.

The amendment will eliminate the legislative gap that allows newcomers from South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Georgia to drive cars with excessive tinted windows. The fact is that they can use their cars on the territory of the Russian Federation for six months without registering them with the State Automobile Inspectorate. Thus, such cars are not subject to the actions of technical regulations, which establish the level of light transmission. Thus, drivers cannot be fined for certain violations, in particular for excessive tinting.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is going to equalize the obligations of foreign and Russian drivers by making technical amendments to Part 3.1 of Article 12.5 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, which establishes a fine of 500 rubles for exceeding the established norms of tinting (not less than 70% in the windshield and front side windows).

"These norms are prescribed in the technical regulations of the Customs Union "On the safety of wheeled vehicles", to which Article 12.5 of the Code refers. The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to replace this reference to the "Basic provisions on the admission of vehicles to operation", approved by the annex to the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation № 1090", - explained in the note.

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