The following words, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
CHIEF: The chief of police of the city of Lemoore, or his/her designee.
DECIBEL (dB): A unit of sound level when the base of the logarithm is the tenth root of ten (10) and the quantities concerned are proportional to power.
EMERGENCY MACHINERY: Machinery used or employed in an effort to protect, provide, or restore safe conditions in the community or for the citizenry.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE: A vehicle used or employed to transport people or machinery while engaged in an effort to protect, provide, or restore safe conditions in the community or for the citizenry, or in the conduct of work by private or public utilities when restoring utility service.
EMERGENCY WORK: Work or labor performed in an effort to protect, provide, or restore safe conditions in the community or for the citizenry, or work by private or public utilities when restoring utility service.
FREQUENCY: "Frequency" of a function periodic in time means the reciprocal of the primitive period. The unit is the hertz and shall be specified.
HERTZ: The complete sequence of values of a periodic quantity which occurs during a period.
LAWFULLY CONDUCTED ACTIVITIES: Any and all activities conducted by the city for public health, safety, or welfare reasons.
LOUD OR UNRULY GATHERING: A gathering of two (2) or more persons on private property or a permitted gathering of two (2) or more persons on public property whose loud or unruly conduct constitutes a threat to public health, safety, or general welfare. This term excludes incidents of domestic violence.
OFFENSIVE NOISE: Any sound or vibration caused by sound which occurs with such intensity, frequency, or in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, injure, or endanger the comfort, health, repose, peace, or safety of other persons within the city, and includes, but is not limited to, noise produced by pets and livestock, by an individual alone or by a group of people engaged in any business, meeting, gathering, game, dance, or amusement, or by industrial equipment, construction, motor vehicles, home appliances, electrical motors, combustion engines, and any other noise producing objects. It shall specifically mean any noise exceeding the ambient noise level at the property line of any person offended thereby by more than ten decibels (10 dB).
PERIOD: The smallest increment of time for which the function repeats itself.
RESPONSIBLE PERSON(S): A person(s) with a right of possession in the property on which a loud or unruly gathering is conducted, including, but not limited to, an owner or tenant of the property if the gathering is on private property, or a permittee if the gathering is a permitted gathering on public property, or any person(s) accepting responsibility for such a gathering.
SOUND LEVEL: Sound level (noise level), in decibels (dB), is the sound pressure level as measured with the "A" weighting and slow response by a sound level meter.
SOUND LEVEL METER: An instrument including a microphone, an amplifier, an output meter, and frequency weighting networks for the measurement of sound levels which satisfies the pertinent specifications published by the American National Standards Institute, New York, New York, in "American Standard Sound Level Meters For Measurement Of Noise And Other Sounds", S1.4-1971, or the most recent revision thereof.
SPECIAL SECURITY SERVICES: The provision of any police, fire, or other emergency response to a loud or unruly gathering within twelve (12) hours of the initial response as provided in this chapter. (Ord. 2012-01, 4-17-2012)