DUSHANBE, January 19, 2010, Asia-Plus — The Dushanbe traffic police department has reportedly issued tinted glass permits to 230 car owners for a total of 523,250 somoni since the beginning of this year.
To get tinted glass permit 230 car owners have paid 2,275 somoni each, Lieutenant-Colonel Sherafgan Latifov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe traffic police department, told Asia-Plus today.
“Over the first ten days of January, six car owners have been stopped in the city for breaking the car window tinting standards and they will have to pay a fine of 4,325 somoni each,” Latifov said.
We will recall that amendments requiring penalty fees for breaking the car window tinting standards came into effect on January 1, 2010. Under the current regulations, at least 75 per cent of light must pass through the driver’s side windows and vehicles may have tint on the windshield as dark as 25 percent, windows to the immediate left and right of the driver — 30 percent, and rear windows – 30. If car owners to have other tinted glass parameters they have to obtain tinted glass permit.
During a meeting with journalists that took place in late December last year, President Emomali Rahmon noted that all payments for tint glass permits and fines fro breaking the car window tinting standards would be directly remitted the bank account opened to support construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP).
