331.36 NOISES FROM HORNS, TIRES AND EXHAUSTS.

   (a)    No person shall sound any horn or other signal device on any automobile, motorcycle or any other type of vehicle except as a warning of danger.

   (b)    No person shall operate any motor vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law, in such a manner that the vehicle is so rapidly accelerated or started from a stopped position that the exhaust system emits a loud cracking, chattering or clattering noise, unusual to its normal operation, or the rubber tires of such vehicle squeal or leave tire marks on the pavement, commonly called peeling.

   (c)    The creation of noise by a squealing of rubber tires by a cracking, chattering or clattering noise from the exhaust, or the creation of tire marks on the roadway accompanying such squealing of tires shall be prima-facie evidence of the intent of the operator to violate this section.

(Ord. 19-75. Passed 7-1-75.)

   (d)   Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.