Section 24 Lights; reflectors; excessive noise; obnoxious fumes - Massachusetts Statutes

Section 24. Each snow vehicle and each recreation vehicle shall be equipped with one or more headlights, a red rear light, a red rear reflector, and adequate muffler, and such safety equipment as may be required by the director. Each such vehicle shall be capable of decelerating in a reasonable manner. Any sled or trailer attached to any such vehicle shall also be equipped with a red rear reflector. All such equipment shall conform to such specifications as the registrar of motor vehicles shall prescribe; provided, however, that the requirements for lighting, as set forth in this paragraph, shall not apply to category Y - all terrain vehicles, so-called; and provided, further, that said registrar in such specifications shall define said category Y - all terrain vehicles in a manner which shall be consistent with the American National Standards Institute Standard ANSI/SVIA I - 1990.

No snow vehicle and no recreation vehicle shall be operated which makes an unusual or excessive noise or which emits obnoxious fumes.

No snow vehicle manufactured after July the first, nineteen hundred and seventy-two shall be sold, offered for sale, or operated that produces a sound pressure level of more than eighty-two decibels. No snow vehicle manufactured after July the first, nineteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be sold, offered for sale or operated that produces a sound pressure level of more than seventy-eight decibels. Sound pressure levels in decibels shall be measured on the “A” scale of a sound level meter approved by the director. Measurements shall be made of overall vehicle noise at maximum speed at fifty feet in accordance with test procedure SAE J192 of the Society of Automotive Engineers, or with such other test procedure for measurement of sound pressure levels as the registrar of motor vehicles may adopt. After January the first, nineteen hundred and seventy-three, no new snow vehicle shall be sold in the commonwealth unless such vehicle is certified by the manufacturer, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the director, as being able to conform with the sound level limitation set forth in this section.