The main requirements for legal window tinting in California are:

• The windshield and front driver's side and passenger's side windows cannot receive any aftermarket tinting.
• If the rear window of a vehicle is tinted, the vehicle must have outside rearview mirrors on both sides.

The law prohibits any person from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied upon the windshield or side or rear windows, with certain limited exceptions.

However, legislation signed into law effective January 1, 1999, exempts from the above prohibition specified clear, colorless, and transparent material that is installed, affixed, or applied to the front driver and passenger side windows for the specific purpose of reducing ultraviolet rays. If, as, or when this material becomes torn, bubbled or otherwise worn, it must be removed or replaced.

San Jose’s Department of Transportation (DOT) no longer funds a program for installing speed bumps on city streets. However DOT has many alternative suggestions and solutions. To view some of these helpful ideas, refer to their Traffic Calming page.

Any request to have physical changes made to a roadway — such as the addition of stop signs, or a change in the speed limit — must be requested through the city of San Jose’s Department of Transportation (DOT). Before any alterations will be made, certain criteria must be met, and evaluations and surveys need to be performed by traffic engineers. Please visit the DOT’s website for more information. DOT also has many suggestions and solutions for such issues. To view some of these helpful ideas, refer to their Traffic Calming page.

To report litter coming from a vehicle in the city of San Jose, you may call the Vehicle Littering Hotline, 408-277-4111. Please be prepared to provide the following: license plate number, make of vehicle, type of vehicle – such as sedan, convertible, pick-up, and vehicle color. Also, specify if it is litter being thrown from a vehicle or blowing out of a vehicle. An advisory letter will be sent to the registered owner of the vehicle.

If you would like to report an illegal dumping site, please call the City of San Jose Department of Transportation, 408-794-1900.

To report illegal dumping in storm drains, call the City of San Jose, Watershed Protection Division, Department of Environment Protection: 408-945-3000.

If it is a chronic problem occurring in the city of San Jose that involves speeding, stop sign violations, or pedestrian right-of-way violations, etc., please complete an on-line request for enforcement form.

You should receive a courtesy notice in the mail from the Santa Clara County Traffic Court prior to the appearance date written on the bottom of the citation. If you have not received a notice at least one week prior to your appearance date, you may either call the traffic court at 408-556-3000 or appear on the date listed on the bottom of the citation. Appearance dates are generally 45 to 60 days after the date the citation was issued.

The address for the San Jose branch of the Santa Clara County Traffic Court is:

1095 Homestead Road
Santa Clara, CA, 95050
sstrafficinfo@scscourt.org
www.scscourt.org