The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them:
CONSTRUCTION OPERATION – the erection, repair, renovation, demolition or removal of any building or structure; and the excavation, filling, and grading of lots.
EMERGENCY WORK – any work performed for the purpose of preventing or alleviating the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an emergency.
MUFFLER OR SOUND DISSIPATIVE DEVICE – a device designed or used for decreasing or abating the level of sound escaping from an engine or machinery system.
NOISE DISTURBANCE – any noise which:
A. Endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals.
B. Annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
C. Endangers or injures personal or real property.
PERSON – any individual, association, partnership or corporation, and includes any officer, employee, department, agency or instrumentality of a state or any political subdivision of a state.
POWERED MODEL VEHICLE – any self-propelled airborne, waterborne, or landborne plane, vessel or vehicle, which is not designed to carry persons, including but not limited to, any model airplane, boat, car or rocket.
PROPERTY OR BOUNDARY LINE - an imaginary line drawn through the points of contact of adjoining lands, apartments, condominiums, townhouses and duplexes owned, rented or leased by different persons; a demarcation or a line of separate properties; and also, for any 2 or more buildings sharing a common grounds, the line drawn midway between any two such buildings. All areas devoted to public rights-of-way shall be deemed to be across the property line. For the purpose of this definition, the property line includes all points on a plane formed by projecting the property line in a manner deemed appropriate by the enforcing police officer.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY – any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, alley or similar place which is open to public use as a matter of right.
PUBLIC SPACE – any real property or structures thereon which are owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
(Ord. 612, 12/8/2014)