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first, nineteen hundred seventy-three, and from November first, nineteen hundred seventy-three, to April first, nine- teen hundred seventy-four. Section 18-248. Exhaust system in good working order required. (a) No person shall drive and no owner of a motor vehicle shall permit or allow the operation of any owned vehicle upon a highway unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard factory equip- ment, or comparable to that designed for use upon the particular vehicle as standard factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise, annoying smoke and escape of excessive gas, steam or oil. An exhaust system shall not be deemed to prevent excessive or un- usual noise if it permits or allows the escape of noise in excess of that permitted by the standard factory equipment exhaust system of private passenger motor vehicles or trucks of standard make. (b) The term "exhaust system," as used in this section, means all the parts of a motor vehicle through which the exhaus=. passes after leaving the engine block. (c) Chambered pipes shall not be deemed to be an effective muffling device to prevent excessive or unusual noise as required in section (a). Section 18-251. Fastening load of logs, barrels, etc. No vehicle which is designed or used for the purpose of hauling logs, poles or lumber, barrels, hogsheads or other materials or containers which by their nature may shift or roll, shall be operated or moved over any highway unless its load is securely fastened by adequate log chains, metal cables, nylon webbing, steel straps or other restraining devices, so as to prevent the shifting or falling of such load from the vehicle, provided, however, that tobacco hogsheads may, in lieu of chains or metal cables, be secured by manila or hemp rope of such strength as to fasten securely the hogshead against shif.ting, falling, or rolling, and in any case of less than five-eights inch in diameter. Nothing in this section shall be construed to release the owner or operator from liability for failure to use reason- able care in securing or fastening said load from shifting or falling. 2. This ordinance shall be effective from and after July 1, 1972o -9-