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By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com
Motorcyclists operating with exhaust pipes that don’t have E.P.A. approval – and dealers and shops selling them – would be open to fines under an amendment attached this week to an ATV bill that is moving forward in the General Assembly. While targeted at loud operators, the amendment would make it illegal ride with practically all makes and models of after-market pipes.
RIDE-CT.com is now digging into the story and will have a report soon, but here’s what the amendment says:
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2013, and applicable to violations committed on or after said date) (a) (1) No person shall sell, register or operate in this state a motorcycle, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, that does not have prominently displayed on such motorcycle and its exhaust system the applicable federal Environmental Protection Agency labels required pursuant to 40 CFR 205, Subparts D and E.
(2) No person shall sell, install or modify an exhaust system after the sale of a motorcycle unless such exhaust system has prominently displayed on it the applicable federal Environmental Protection Agency exhaust system label required pursuant to 40 CFR 205, Subpart E.
(b) Nothing in this section shall relieve any person from such person’s obligation to comply with the provisions of section 14-80 of the general statutes.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or more than one hundred dollars for a first offense, and not less than one hundred dollars or more than two hundred fifty dollars for each subsequent offense.
