(a) Every motor vehicle and motorcycle with an internal combustion engine shall at all times be equipped with a muffler which is in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise, and no person shall use a muffler cutout, by-pass or similar device upon a motor vehicle on a highway. Every motorcycle muffler shall be equipped with baffle plates.
(b) No person shall own, operate or have in the person’s possession any motor vehicle or motorcycle equipped with a device for producing excessive smoke or gas, or so equipped as to permit oil or any other chemical to flow into or upon the exhaust pipe or muffler of such vehicle, or equipped in any other way to produce or emit smoke or dangerous or annoying gases from any portion of such vehicle, other than the ordinary gases emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine under normal operation.
(c) No person shall operate an engine brake, commonly known as a “jake brake,” on any road or highway within the City of North Olmsted in a manner which causes unreasonable noise. For purposes of this section, “unreasonable noise” means creating sound that exceeds the decibel limits for the acceleration or deceleration of motor vehicles operated by motor carriers on roads and highways as provided for by regulation of the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, currently at 40 C.F.R. §202.20. (Ord. 2009-97. Passed 9-15-09.)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.22)