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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 500 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1960 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1968, chapter 659; in 1987, chapter 488; in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0108\">108<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":193671,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82900,"identifier":"29.1-737","token":"29.1\/7\/3\/29.1-737","url":"\/29.1-737\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/29.1-737\/","token":"29.1\/7\/3\/29.1-737","dublin_core":{"Title":"Muffling devices","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 29.1-737","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The exhaust of every internal combustion engine used on any <span class=\"dictionary\">motorboat<\/span> shall be effectively muffled by equipment so constructed and used as to muffle the noise of the exhaust in a reasonable manner. The muffling device shall exhaust at or below the water line or it shall be equipped with mechanical baffles. 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