(a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle with an internal combustion engine without same being at all times equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise, and no person shall use a muffler cut-out, bypass or similar device upon a motor vehicle or motorcycle on a highway. Every motorcycle muffler shall be equipped with baffle plates.
(b) No person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle which causes excessive noise as a result of a defective or modified exhaust system. A modified exhaust system is an exhaust system in which the original noise abatement devices have been physically altered causing them to be less effective in reducing noise or the original noise abatement devices have either been removed or replaced by noise abatement devices which are not as effective in reducing noise as their original devices or devices have been added to the original noise abatement devices such that noise levels are increased.
(c) No person shall unnecessarily race the motor of any vehicle and no person shall operate any motor vehicle, except in the case of an emergency, in such a manner that the vehicle is so rapidly accelerated or started from the stopped position that the exhaust system emits a sound, cracking or chattering noise unusual to its operation, or whereby the tires of such vehicle squeal or leave tire marks on the pavement, commonly known as "pealing".
(d) No person shall use or operate any motor vehicle or motorcycle so out of repair or loaded in such a manner as to create loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or noise.
(e) No person shall equip a motor vehicle or motorcycle with and use any device which creates loud or excessive noise; however, nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the blowing of horns when necessary to prevent an accident or the use of sirens or similar devices on authorized emergency vehicles.
(f) No operator or passenger of a motor vehicle or motorcycle shall operate, or permit the operation of any sound amplification system which can be heard outside the vehicle from fifty feet or more when the vehicle is being operated upon a street, highway, alley, or parking lot. The term "sound amplification system" includes any radio, tape players, compact disc player, loudspeaker or other electronic device used for the amplification of the human voice, or any other noise or sound.
(Ord. 92-5959. Passed 11-10-92.)