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License Plate Guide

Tinted Windows

Image of Tinted Windows License Plate


Tinted Window License Plates are issued to any person owning and operating a motor vehicle, who is determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in Illinois is afflicted with or suffers from a medical illness, ailment or disease including but not limited to systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus, disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis or albinism, which would require that person to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun is entitled to operate said vehicle with tinted windows. This exception also applies to a vehicle used in transporting a person when the person resides at the same address as the registered owner and the person is afflicted with or suffering from a qualifying medical condition.

Tinted Windows Certification Form

Fees

STANDARD
Currently Registered Vehicle

  • First-time issuance - $78
    ($78 Registration fee)
  • Current plates expire within 90 days - $107
    ($78 registration fee + $29 replacement fee)
  • Current plates do not expire within 90 days - $29
    ($29 replacement fee)
  • Annual renewal - $78
    ($78 registration fee)

Newly Acquired Vehicle

  • First-time issuance - $143
    ($143 title/registration fee)

To Apply

  • One must submit a Secretary of State Tinted Window Certification form for tinted window license plates that is completed and signed by a physician licensed to practice medicine in Illinois and the applicant.
  • The request can only be processed in Springfield. Apply in person or mail the proper documentation to:

    • Secretary of State
      Special Plates Division
      501 S. Second St., Rm. 520
      Springfield, Illinois 62756

Availability

  • Tinted window license plates are multi-year and may be displayed on passenger vehicles, trucks and vans weighing 8,000 pounds or less and Sport Utility Vehicles.

Available as Personalized:

  • No

Available as Vanity:

  • No

Available as Circuit Breaker:

  • No

Renewal Methods

  • Tinted window license plates can only be renewed in Springfield.

License plate registration application forms may be obtained in person at most Secretary of State facilities, by mail or by calling
800-252-8980.
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