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Well heres a link to everystate for your state laws. maybe this can help out on some of the questions, and if a mod wants to maybe if you can approve it through derek you can make a forum for questions on laws etc? that i will be more the glad to help out with.

Link to state laws

injen

 
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cool, now i can specificly find out which laws i feel like breaking

 
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true but remember these are state laws, so they high the highest fines/punishment

injen

 
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Thanks for sharing It looks like California has the most That's bad for me.

 
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probably not enough threads/demand for a law forum, but i will make this sticky for now, until we can better determine the need.

 
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so does this mean that a modified exhaust is legal since i have a muffler?

Every motor vehicle so operated shall be provided with a muffler or other suitable device to prevent unnecessary noise

MA

thanks saj

 
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I'll have to agree with born2xLr8.

The laws around SOCAL suck hardcore. The onetimes will book your *** with all kinda fines if you get stopped and it all starts when they pull up behind you and see the exhaust.

It would be great to have a forum for this shiznit.

 
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Same Here

 
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yes you can have exhaust, just as to where its no so loud it causes noise polution or where you smoke all the time.

injen

 
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But some counties have a seperate noise ordinace law tha tprevents you from having a exhaust that reaches over a certain decibel level.

 
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yes i know, most state laws are in correspondence with local laws on such items as that.

Injen

 
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please people dont go just by state laws.. also look up your county and city laws also bc they do add extra laws in most areas.. so please call your local police for your exact local laws

 
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wow thanks

 
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Yeah I know that the Naperville and Aurora area cops have tigher laws on noise from a moving vehicl then like the city of chicago does, it is mainly because they have nothing better to do with their time but to harass me but hey it is all fun and games.

 
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Nobody cares in Iowa...only speeding...I have a couple friends with trucks without exausts...and that is loud

 
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well state code here states they are supposed to have some type of exhaust.

Injen

 
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i really did not want to know because the more you know the more you know you don't know

 
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so if you have a really loud exhaust (tanabe's catback) you will get a ticket? i have like no idea what decibel levels are illegal, but to me, tanabe seems to be the loudest

 
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If you really want to know about the deibel laws for your state / county then go to your local police station and ask them for the written law about it. I did this and I keep the sheet they gave me in my car at all times so that when I get pulled over I hand the cop the sheet when he asks about my exhaust and then he doesn't say another word because he knows he can't write me a bullshit ticket

 
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decible levels are only used really for stereos, if you can hear a stereo more the 50 ft away then you will be cited here at my jurisdiction.

as far as your exhaust as long as you dont have smoke or anything coming from the exhaust your fine. mostly sound wise we look for straight pipes on harley davidson motorcycles.

You should be fine with your Tanabe exhaust.

Injen

 
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Actually in Aurora, IL we have the same kind of thing for exhaust, they can make you take it to a testing center and then, using a decibel meter, determine if it is to loud or not for a car. Motorcycle's don't fall under the same vehicle laws as cars. Also around my area the cops only do this to people with fixed up imports. I have seen many impala's, the old boat one's, go flying cops with open headers and no mufflers or cats, and all the cops would do is stare and say that is cool.

 
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motorcycles are motorvehicles' so therefore they fall under vehicles.

Injen

 
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Let me rephrase, motorcycle's get a very huge leway when it comes to motor-vehicle law on the road, I have seen them get away with more stuff on the road, in front of cops, and if it was a car doing any of that they would have gotten ticketed

 
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its officer discretion on items like that situation

Injen

 
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Well, you being a cop, do you ever chase a speeding motorcycle??? Full well knowing that if he lays it down two gears and throws the throttlw down he will leave you in the dust? I know most cops just let it go with saying, he will just end up killing himself, and yes I have actually heard those words come out of a few cops mouths when I was going on ride alongs.

 
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now this kinda reminds me of the stolkholm getaways 1, 2 & 3, except they were all done by a car. bikes are fun as long as the road is long and straight and you dont fall

 
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me working for the city police dept. no, we wouldnt. we wouldnt chase him for a simple offense like that, no on the other hand a highway patrol unit would. We have to much of a high priority call volume to do stuff like that.

Injen

 
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good thread... people from california should know the basics...

exhaust
tint
carb stickers
the height of the ride from the ground
tyc approved lighting

etc...

 
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by iamboo
[B]good thread... people from california should know the basics...

Thanks i figured this would lower posts on questions for these answers. still tryin to get a seperate forum for items like this, just basic encounters with police or laws.

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If you want to be heard, buy a tuff car that speaks for itself. I like those low tone mufflers that humm and send off vibrations, but not those tin cans full of pissed off bees.