No person shall operate a motor vehicle – and no owner of a motor vehicle shall permit or allow the operation of a motor vehicle – on a street, roadway, alley, or highway within the City unless such motor vehicle meets the following standards:
1. Any motor vehicle operated in the City shall be equipped with an exhaust system in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive noise or annoying or prohibited fumes or smoke. Any exhaust system shall be deemed defective and prohibited by this chapter if any changes, modifications, alterations, deletions, adjustments, or deteriorations have been made or permitted which, as a result of the changes, modifications, alterations, deletions, adjustments, or deteriorations, would cause such exhaust system to generate a higher or louder sound level (which is excessive noise) than was generated by the system prior to the change, modification, alteration, deletion, adjustment, or deterioration.
2. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City which is equipped with an exhaust system which has a cut-out, lake pipes or dump, “snuff-or-nots” (snuff nuts), straight pipes, or extensions.
3. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City which is equipped with headers which create excessive noise.
4. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in the City unless the motor vehicle has a muffler in its exhaust system.
5. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City equipped with a muffler from which the baffle plates, baffle tubes, screens, packing, lining or other original internal or external parts have been removed and have not been replaced.
6. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City equipped with an exhaust system which shall, upon acceleration or deceleration, with or without the drive train engaged, of the speed of the motor vehicle, omit or produce a popping or crackling sound or create excessive noise.
7. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City unless the vehicle is equipped with a tail pipe as defined in this chapter. This subsection shall not be deemed to apply to semi-motor trucks and tandem trucks.
8. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City equipped with an exhaust system which consists, in whole or in part, of any moveable, non-rigid fibrous or metal outer coverings.
9. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City equipped with an exhaust system which has installed in the system any device designed to ignite exhaust gases so as to produce flame within or outside the exhaust system.
10. No motor vehicle shall be operated in the City by any person in any manner or by any method whereby the operation of the motor vehicle will create or cause the motor vehicle or any of its component parts to create excessive noise.