§ 10.56.240. Internal combustion engines.

A.

No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the emission of visible air contaminants, the shade or appearance of which is as dark or darker than No. 2 on the Ringlemann Smoke Chart of forty percent opacity.

B.

It is unlawful for any pollution-control device required by the environmental protection agency, the air pollution control board of the state or the metropolitan health department for the control of air pollution from motor vehicles to be removed or attended in any way to make them partially or completely inoperable.

C.

All buses and trucks registered in the metropolitan government area shall be equipped with smoke and odor elimination equipment within twelve months after which one or more such devices have been approved by the department or by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

D.

The board may, by rule or regulation, promulgate, require and enforce programs of inspection and maintenance for vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines; however, such rules or regulations shall only become effective upon the approval by resolution of the council of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The board may, at its discretion, prescribe reasonable fees for inspections and provide for the payment and collection of such fees.

(Ord. 95-84 § 5, 1995; prior code § 4-1-8)