§ 4311 — Mufflers; cutout prohibited

(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle, including a motorcycle, on a highway, including residential streets, unless such motor vehicle or motorcycle is equipped with a muffler in good working order and in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise.

(b) No person shall use a “muffler cutout” on any motor vehicle upon a highway.

(c) It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any muffler without interior baffle plates or other effective muffling devices or to sell or offer for sale any “gutted muffler,” “muffler cutout” or “straight exhaust.”

(d) The provisions of this section shall only apply if there is not a violation of § 4311A of this title.

Legislative History

36 Del. Laws, c. 10, § 127 ; 37 Del. Laws, c. 10, § 34 ; Code 1935, § 5665; 21 Del. C. 1953, § 4311; 59 Del. Laws, c. 371, § 1 ; 61 Del. Laws, c. 478, § 1 ; 75 Del. Laws, c. 164, § 3