Virginia SB 586: Exhaust system in good working order; excludes antique motor vehicles.

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18103722D

SENATE BILL NO. 586 

Offered January 10, 2018 

Prefiled January 9, 2018 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 46.2-1049 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to exhaust system in good working order; excluded vehicles. 
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Patron-- DeSteph 

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Referred to Committee on Transportation 

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Be 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 vehicle shall permit 
 or allow the operation of any such vehicle on a highway unless it is equipped 
 with an exhaust system in good working order and in constant operation to 
 prevent excessive or unusual levels of noise; provided however, that for motor 
 vehicles, such exhaust system shall be of a type installed as standard factory 
 equipment, or comparable to that designed for use on the particular vehicle as 
 standard factory equipment. An exhaust system shall not be deemed to prevent 
 excessive or unusual noise if it permits 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.

The term "exhaust system," as used in this section, 
 means all the parts of a vehicle through which the exhaust passes after leaving 
 the engine block, including mufflers and other sound dissipative devices.

Chambered pipes are not an effective muffling device to 
 prevent excessive or unusual noise, and any vehicle equipped with chambered 
 pipes shall be deemed in violation of this section.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to (i) any 
 antique motor vehicle manufactured 
 prior to 1950, provided that 
 the engine is comparable to that designed as standard factory equipment for use 
 on that particular vehicle, and the exhaust system is in good working order, or 
 (ii) converted electric vehicles.