---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 202.22"
title: "40"
number: "202.22"
heading: "Visual exhaust system inspection."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/202.22"
---

# §202.22. Visual exhaust system inspection.


No motor carrier subject to these regulations shall operate any motor vehicle of a type to which this regulation is applicable unless the exhaust system of such vehicle is (a) free from defects which affect sound reduction; (b) equipped with a muffler or other noise dissipative device; and (c) not equipped with any cut-out, bypass, or similar device.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 18, 36 Stat. 1249, 42 U.S.C. 4917(a).