Tinted Rear Windows Head The List Of Traffic Fines
March 3rd, 2010 | by admin |Driving around Costa Rica with a tinted rear window now comes with a high price tag, ¢117.000 colones instead of the old fine of ¢5.000. And for Tránsito officials, tinted rear windows or “polarizados” as it is referred to in Spanish, this single item heads the list of all traffic fines issued since Monday.
At the close of Tuesday, more than 900 drivers around the country were fined for a variety of traffic violations that included not having and/or carrying a drivers license, not having the ’2010 Marchamo” (circulation permit), not wearing seatbelts and tinted rear windows.
Although the Riteve, the annual vehicular inspection, deems tinted rear windows a “falta leve” (light fault), the Policía de Tránsito sees it otherwise and the prohibition of rear tinted windows is now part of the new Ley de Tránsito and not just prohibition in a regulation.
Thus, if you are driving a vehicle with blacked out rear windows, be prepared to fork over ¢117.000 colones to government coffers.
