Colorado

Denver Approves Label Match-Up Program

Denver has passed new motorcycle legislation designed to enforce noise emissions using the EPA Label Match-Up program that takes effect on July 1, 2007.

The legislation allows police to ticket motorcyclists if a bike made after 1982 has a muffler lacking a mandatory factory U.S. Environmental Protection Agency noise certification stamp. Prior, city environmental officers used expensive noise meters to alert police officers when a motorcycle violated the noise code. Bikers have two weeks to show a judge they fixed the problem to avoid the $500 fine.

City Councilman Rick Garcia sponsored Council Bill 242 in response to complaints from residents about loud motorcycles riding through the northwest Denver districts at all hours.

News Item: Rocky Mountain News.

News Item: Denver ordinance against loud motorcycles causing noise.