Window tint laws in Nevada (2026)

The rules, window by window

Windshield

Nontransparent material on the windshield is generally prohibited if it obstructs the driver's clear view (NRS 484D.435). A tinted band is permitted only above a line at least 29 inches above the undepressed driver's seat, and that material may not be red or amber in color (NRS 484D.440(3)(c)).

The standard in the law's own words

NRS 484D.435 sets an independent, non-numeric obstruction standard: a person may not drive with any sign, poster, or other nontransparent material on the windshield, side wings, or side/rear windows that obstructs the driver's clear view of the highway or an intersecting highway, subject to a small exempted area in the lower corner of the windshield farthest from the driver and materials required by federal or state law.

Reflectivity

The statutory text obtained for the front side windows requires the material to be nonreflective, without a separately quantified reflectance percentage in the sections reviewed.

Color restrictions

The windshield tint band above the 29-inch line may not be red or amber in color (NRS 484D.440(3)(c)(2)).

Medical exemption

A person may apply in writing to the Nevada Highway Patrol, Department of Public Safety for a permit exempting a vehicle from the standard tinting limits under NRS 484D.440(2). NAC 484D.280 requires the written application to describe the vehicle (year, make, model, color, VIN, license plate) and the percentage of total light transmission of the material to be placed on the windshield or any side or rear window. NAC 484D.285 requires a sworn statement supporting the application, consisting of: (a) the applicant's treating physician attesting that the applicant has a medical condition requiring the placement of transparent material on the windshield or a side or rear window; and (b) the applicant's own attestation that they are the primary driver of the vehicle. Separate sworn-statement exemption pathways also exist for ambulances/hearses and for law-enforcement vehicles used for surveillance, canine transport, undercover work, or forensic purposes.

Enforcement

Rear side windows and the rear window may be tinted to any darkness under NRS 484D.440(3)(b), conditioned on the vehicle having outside mirrors on each side that give the driver a clear view of the highway for at least 200 feet to the rear. A violation of the tinting standards is not classified as a moving traffic violation (NRS 484D.440, subsection referenced in secondary summary as subsection 7). The Director of the DMV may adopt regulations providing further exemptions from the standards (NRS 484D.440, subsection referenced in secondary summary as subsection 6).

Notes

The front side window figure is drawn from NRS 484D.440(3)(a), which requires total light transmission through the combination of any transparent material and the safety glazing of not less than 35%, with a tolerance of 7 percentage points, and requires the material to be nonreflective; no separate quantified reflectance ceiling (e.g., a specific percent figure) was found in the fetched text, so reflectivity is described qualitatively rather than with a number. Rear side windows and the rear window are not subject to a minimum VLT figure in the text obtained; they are permitted at any darkness provided the dual-outside-mirror condition is met, so noRestriction.rearSide and noRestriction.rearWindow are set to true with that mirror condition noted. RESOLVED on the flagged gap: NAC 484D.280 and 484D.285 were fetched and read directly in this pass from the Cornell Legal Information Institute's official mirror of the Nevada Administrative Code (law.cornell.edu/regulations/nevada), which reproduces the current NAC text verbatim, cross-checked against a second official-adjacent reproduction (Justia's Nevada Administrative Code mirror) and the elaws.us NAC mirror for 484D.280. The medicalExemption summary above now reflects the two sections' actual content -- 484D.280's application-content requirements and 484D.285's dual sworn-statement structure (treating-physician attestation plus primary-driver attestation) -- rather than a secondary aggregator's paraphrase. The official leg.state.nv.us NRS/NAC chapter pages still returned an HTTP 403 error to automated fetch in this pass, so the underlying statutory text (NRS 484D.435, 484D.440) continues to rely on the nevada.public.law full-text reproduction as in the prior pass; only the NAC medical-exemption sections were the specific flagged gap, and those are now directly sourced. No MPV/SUV/truck-specific variance was found in the text obtained; passenger-vehicle figures are used throughout.