After receiving complaints of loud mufflers throughout the City, Officers are cracking down. On Saturday night alone Officers issued a citation and 3 warnings for loud mufflers. During one of the stops Officers arrested a 21 year old Sturgeon Bay man for a Probation Hold after finding Drug Paraphernalia in the vehicle. Officers would like to remind all who operate vehicles with loud mufflers you could be stopped and cited or given a 15 day warning to fix your defective muffler.
347.39 Mufflers.
(1) No person shall operate on a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an adequate muffler in constant operation and properly maintained to prevent any excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke. This subsection also applies to motor bicycles.
(2) No muffler or exhaust system on any vehicle mentioned in sub. (1) shall be equipped with a cutout, bypass or similar device nor shall there be installed in the exhaust system of any such vehicle any device to ignite exhaust gases so as to produce flame within or without the exhaust system. No person shall modify the exhaust system of any such motor vehicle in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor of such vehicle above that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle, and such original muffler shall comply with all the requirements of this section.
(3) In this section, "muffler" means a device consisting of a series of chambers of baffle plates or other mechanical design for receiving exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine and which is effective in reducing noise.
