For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUDIBLE. Any sound that can be heard by a person using his or her normal faculties.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Includes, but is not limited to, automobiles, recreational vehicles, and trucks with or without trailers, motorcycles, motorized bicycles, go-carts, snowmobiles, locomotives and watercraft.
PERSON. Any person, person’s firm, association, copartnership, joint venture, corporation or any entity, public or private.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE. Any sound produced by a sound amplification system which can be heard at a distance of 50 feet or more. Measurement standards shall be by the auditory senses, based upon direct line of sight. Words or phrases need not be discernible and base reverberations are included.
PROPERTIES. An imaginary line along the ground surface, and its vertical extension, which separates the real property owned by one person from that owned by another person.
SOUND AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM. Any radio, tape player, compact disc player, loudspeaker or other electronic device used for the amplification of the human voice or sound.
(Ord. 97-36, passed 1-12-1998)