Window tint laws in Yukon (2026)

The rules, window by window

Windshield

The Motor Vehicles Act itself sets only a general qualitative rule: no person shall drive a vehicle if the view through the windshield or windows is so obscured (by mud, frost, steam, or any other thing) as to make driving hazardous or dangerous (s.190). The territorial government's own public guidance separately states a 70% VLT minimum applies to the windshield.

The standard in the law's own words

Motor Vehicles Act, RSY 2002, c 153, s.190 ('Obscured windshield'): no person shall drive a vehicle on a highway if the view through the windshield or windows is obscured by mud, frost, steam, or any other thing so as to make driving hazardous or dangerous. This is a general condition-of-glass provision, not tint-specific wording, and carries no numeric threshold.

Medical exemption

No medical exemption provision found in Motor Vehicles Act s.190 or in the reviewed sections of the Motor Vehicles Equipment Regulations. Not confirmed either way from a primary source in this pass.

Enforcement

The Government of Yukon's own consumer-facing page states that a driver may be asked to lower windows during a stop and that illegal tint may lead to fines or a removal order.

Notes

A direct read of the Motor Vehicles Act (RSY 2002, c 153) found only the general qualitative s.190 'obscured windshield' provision (mud/frost/steam/'any other thing'), with no tint-specific numeric language. On the flagged gap: this pass fetched and read the complete official PDF of the Motor Vehicles Equipment Regulations (O.I.C. 1987/086, laws.yukon.ca) end to end, including the full text of s.24 'Windshield' and every surrounding section (ss.20-27, windshield wipers through passenger equipment on motor cycles). Section 24 addresses only whether a vehicle must have a windshield, that new-vehicle windshield/window glass must comply with 'the conditions prescribed by the regulations' (i.e. safety-glazing/manufacturer standards), and dealer/glazier obligations -- there is no light-transmittance percentage, tint, or sun-screening provision anywhere in the regulation. This closes the earlier 'not located in this pass' gap with a definitive finding: no statutory or regulatory clause codifying a 70% (or any numeric) tint figure exists in Yukon's Motor Vehicles Act or Motor Vehicles Equipment Regulations. The 70% VLT figure recorded here (frontSideVltMinPct) is confirmed to exist only as departmental guidance on the Government of Yukon's official public-facing page ('Dark Tint. Not a flex.', yukon.ca): 'In the Yukon, at least 70 per cent of the light outside your car must be able to filter through your: windshield; driver side window; and front passenger side windows.' That page is an official government publication and is retained as the source for the figure, but it does not correspond to any located statutory or regulatory text; it is most plausibly enforced, if at all, as departmental policy applied under the general s.190 'obscured windshield' standard rather than as a freestanding numeric rule. Rear side/rear window rules were not addressed on the yukon.ca page or anywhere in the Act/regulations reviewed, so those fields are left null.