1.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the owner or lessee of a motor vehicle that is driven by or is used to regularly transport a person who has a medical condition involving ophthalmic or dermatologic photosensitivity may apply to the director for permission to have the windshield and windows of that vehicle covered by or treated with a product or material that increases its light reflectance or reduces its light transmittance.

   The application shall be in a form and manner prescribed by the director and shall include, but not be limited to, a written certification by a certified ophthalmologist or a physician with a plenary license to practice medicine and surgery in this State or a bordering state that the person for whom the application is submitted has a medical condition involving ophthalmic or dermatologic photosensitivity. For the purposes of this act, medical conditions involving ophthalmic or dermatologic photosensitivity shall include:

   a.   polymorphous light eruption;

   b.   persistent light reactivity;

   c.   actinic reticuloid;

   d.   porphyrins;

   e.   solar urticaria;

   f.   lupus erythematosus; and

   g.   such other photosensitive disorders or conditions as the director shall determine.

   L.1999,c.308,s.1.