As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended:
CONSTRUCTION: Any site preparation, assembly, erection, substantial repair, alteration, or similar action, but excluding demolition, for or on public or private rights of way, structures, utilities, or similar property.
DEMOLITION: Any dismantling or intentional destruction or removal of structures, utilities, public or private right of way surfaces, or similar property.
EMERGENCY: Any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or imminent physical trauma or property damage or loss which demands immediate action.
EMERGENCY WORK: Any work performed for the purpose of preventing or alleviating the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an emergency.
NOISE: Any sound which annoys or disturbs or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological or physiological effect on humans.
NOISE DISTURBANCE: Any sound which:
A. Endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals;
B. Annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities; or
C. Endangers or injures personal or real property.
PERSON: Any individual, association, partnership, or corporation.
REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY: The property line along the ground surface, and its vertical extension, which separates the real property owned by one person from that owned by another person.
RESIDENTIAL AREA: Single-family, two-family, and multi-family zoning district classifications.
SOUND: An oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity, or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal or interval forces, that cause compression and rarefaction of that medium, and which propagates at finite speed. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity, and frequency. (Ord. 98-70, 12-3-1998)