Window tint medical exemptions in Alaska

Alaska does not provide one. Alaska is the one state where we have to tell you about our own sources before the law. 13 AAC 04.223 is not served on any Alaska government host we could reach, so unlike every other state here we have not read the regulation. What we could read is where the medical exemption everybody quotes comes from, and the answer matters: it is bill text. Senate Bill 78 in 2007 and House Bill 211 later would each have added an exemption for a driver or frequent passenger needing to be shielded from the sun, certified annually by a physician licensed under AS 08.64, with the certification carried in the vehicle. That annual-certification wording is what circulates as Alaska's rule. Neither bill could be confirmed to have passed, and a bill that adds an exemption is evidence the regulation lacked one. Against that, H.B. 211 would also have annulled subsections (b)(2), (b)(3) and (h) of the regulation, and if (h) were itself an exemption the bill would be moving one rather than creating it — which is why we state this as unconfirmed rather than as a no. Two further things worth knowing before you tint anything in Alaska: the DMV's own road-test page says the same regulation makes mirrored or aftermarket tint illegal on any window, which is stricter than the 70 and 40 percent figures in wide circulation, and the Alaska Court System does schedule the offence, so it is enforced whatever its text says.