After Market Motorcycle Exhausts will become illegal under SB 435
Well, many of you have heard about SB 435, and many of you have not. California Senate Bill 435 will basically make it illegal to run with non stock exhausts on your motorcycles.
This bill passed the State Senate and is now sitting on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk as I type this.
Our only hope now to get this asinine bill stopped is for the governor to veto the bill.
Every one of you should call, email, and write to Schwarzenegger NOW to get him to not sign the bill. Schwarzenegger is a fellow biker. Hopefully he will veto the damm thing.
If Schwarzenegger signs SB 435, it will become law. This law makes all 2013 and newer bikers without EPA stamped exhausts subject to fines of between $50.00 and $100.00.
On a personal note, I have never had a stock motorcycle with EPA stamps, so I have no clue how the hell the State is going to force manufacturers to put Federal EPA stamps on their exhaust systems.
I think this law is discriminatory on its face.
They say that since this is a secondary infraction, that the Police will be unable to pull over a motorcycle solely for an apparent exhaust violation, but I know that many bikers are being pulled over now for supposedly loud pipes.
You and I all know how this thing will play out. There will be some officers that will pull over any motorcycle that sounds loud, and they will ding the rider with a ticket if they cannot see the EPA stamp on the exhaust.
Frankly, I am so pissed off about this bill that I probably should not write anymore about it right now.
All I can say is that this is what happens when you get legislatures in office making more money than most of the people in the State, and with too much time on their hands.
By California Motorcycle Accident Attorney and Biker Lawyer, Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq., © 2010
