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2006 SESSION
063582302Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 46.2-1049 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 46.2-1049. Exhaust system in good working order.
No person shall drive and no owner of a motor vehicle shall
permit or allow the operation of any vehicle on a highway unless it is equipped
with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard factory equipment, or
comparable to that designed for use on the particular vehicle as standard
factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent
excessive or unusual noise. An after-market exhaust
system shall not be deemed to prevent excessive or
unusual noise if an owner is able to demonstrate that it
does not permitpermits
the escape of noise in excess of that
permitted by the standard factory equipment exhaust system of private passenger
motor vehicles or trucks of standard make 95
decibels as measured by the Society of Automotive Engineers Standard J1169. For
the purposes of this section, a motorcycle shall
not be deemed a motor vehicle.
The term "exhaust system," as used in this section, means all the parts of a motor vehicle through which the exhaust passes after leaving the engine block.
Chambered pipes are not an effective muffling device to prevent excessive or unusual noise.