From Missouri Statutes:
V.A.M.S. 307.135 Director not to license vehicle without safety glass
It shall be the duty of the director of revenue to refuse to issue a license for any motor vehicle
manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1936, unless such motor vehicle is equipped as
provided in sections 307.130 to 307.160, with such types of safety glass as have been
heretofore approved by the secretary of state or may hereafter be approved by the state
highway patrol.
V.A.M.S. 307.145 Sale of vehicles without safety glass prohibited
It shall be unlawful after January 1, 1936, to sell in the state of Missouri, any motor vehicle,
manufactured or assembled after said date, and designed for the purpose of carrying
passengers, unless such vehicle be equipped in all doors, windows, rear windows and
windshields with safety glass.
V.A.M.S. 307.173 Specifications for sun screening device applied to windshield or windows--
permit required, when--exceptions--rules, procedure--violations, penalty--exemptions
1. Any person may operate a motor vehicle with front sidewing vents or windows located
immediately to the left and right of the driver that have a sun-screening device, in conjunction
with safety glazing material, that has a light transmission of thirty-five percent or more plus or
minus three percent and a luminous reflectance of thirty-five percent or less plus or minus
three percent. Except as provided in subsection 5 of this section, any sun-screening device
applied to front sidewing vents or windows located immediately to the left and right of the
driver in excess of the requirements of this section shall be prohibited without a permit
pursuant to a physician's prescription as described below. A permit to operate a motor vehicle
with front sidewing vents or windows located immediately to the left and right of the driver
that have a sun-screening device, in conjunction with safety glazing material, which permits less
light transmission and luminous reflectance than allowed under the requirements of this
subsection, may be issued by the department of public safety to a person having a serious
medical condition which requires the use of a sun-screening device if the permittee's physician
prescribes its use. The director of the department of public safety shall promulgate rules and
regulations for the issuance of the permit. The permit shall allow operation of the vehicle by
any titleholder or relative within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, which shall
mean a spouse, each grandparent, parent, brother, sister, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, child,
and grandchild of a person, who resides in the household. Except as provided in subsection 2 of
this section, all sun-screening devices applied to the windshield of a motor vehicle are
prohibited.
2. This section shall not prohibit labels, stickers, decalcomania, or informational signs on motor
vehicles or the application of tinted or solar screening material to recreational vehicles as
defined in section 700.010, provided that such material does not interfere with the driver's
normal view of the road. This section shall not prohibit factory-installed tinted glass, the
equivalent replacement thereof or tinting material applied to the upper portion of the motor
vehicle's windshield which is normally tinted by the manufacturer of motor vehicle safety glass.
3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under
the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is
subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section
and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly
pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule
are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule
proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.
4. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
5. Any vehicle licensed with a historical license plate shall be exempt from the requirements
of this section.
V.A.M.S. 307.350 Motor vehicles, biennial inspection required, exceptions--authorization to
operate inspection station for inspection authorized--violation, penalty
1. The owner of every motor vehicle as defined in section 301.010 which is required to be
registered in this state, except:

(3) Historic motor vehicles registered pursuant to section 301.131;

shall submit such vehicles to a biennial inspection of their mechanism and equipment in
accordance with the provisions of sections 307.350 to 307.390 and obtain a certificate of
inspection and approval and a sticker, seal, or other device from a duly authorized official
inspection station. The inspection, except the inspection of school buses which shall be made at
the time provided in section 307.375, shall be made at the time prescribed in the rules and
regulations issued by the superintendent of the Missouri state highway patrol; but the
inspection of a vehicle shall not be made more than sixty days prior to the date of application
for registration or within sixty days of when a vehicle's registration is transferred; however, if a
vehicle was purchased from a motor vehicle dealer and a valid inspection had been made
within sixty days of the purchase date, the new owner shall be able to utilize an inspection
performed within ninety days prior to the application for registration or transfer. Any vehicle
manufactured as an even-numbered model year vehicle shall be inspected and approved
pursuant to the safety inspection program established pursuant to sections 307.350 to 307.390
in each even-numbered calendar year and any such vehicle manufactured as an odd-numbered
model year vehicle shall be inspected and approved pursuant to sections 307.350 to 307.390 in
each odd-numbered year. The certificate of inspection and approval shall be a sticker, seal, or
other device or combination thereof, as the superintendent of the Missouri state highway
patrol prescribes by regulation and shall be displayed upon the motor vehicle or trailer as
prescribed by the regulations established by him. The replacement of certificates of inspection
and approval which are lost or destroyed shall be made by the superintendent of the Missouri
state highway patrol under regulations prescribed by him.

V.A.M.S. 407.526 Odometer fraud, third degree, penalty
1. A person commits the crime of odometer fraud in the third degree if, with the intent to
defraud, he operates a motor vehicle less than ten years old on any street or highway knowing
that the odometer of the motor vehicle is disconnected or not functioning.
2. Odometer fraud in the third degree is a class C misdemeanor.

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