[Amended 5-13-1997 by Ord. No. 943; 3-12-2013 by Ord. No. 13-1270, § 1; 3-11-2014 by Ord. No. 14-1285, § 1]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ANIMAL PRODUCTS—Food materials derived from animals and originating from the preparation of food products. [Added 3-12-2013 by Ord. No. 13-1270; amended 3-11-2014 by Ord. No. 14-1285]
COMMERCIAL AREA—A group of commercial facilities and the abutting public right-of-way and public spaces.
COMMERCIAL FACILITY—Any premises, property or facility involving traffic in goods or furnishing of services for sale or profit, including but not limited to:
A. Banking and other financial institutions.
B. Dining establishments.
C. Establishments for providing retail or wholesale services.
D. Establishments for recreation and entertainment.
E. Office buildings.
F. Transportation.
G. Warehouses.
CONSTRUCTION—The erection, repair, alteration, renovation, demolition or removal of any building or structure and the excavation, filling, grading and regulation of lots in connection therewith.
EMERGENCY—Any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or imminent physical trauma or property damage.
EMERGENCY WORK—Any work or action necessary to deliver essential services, including but not limited to repairing water, gas, electric, telephone or sewer facilities or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees on public rights-of-way, abating life-threatening conditions or preventing or alleviating the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an emergency.
FIREWORKS—Any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or combination of substances which is intended to produce visible or audible effects by combustion. [Added 8-25-2020 by Ord. No. 20-1362, § 1]
GREEN KITCHEN WASTE—Organic plant materials, uncontaminated with animal products of any kind, originating from the preparation of residential household food products. [Added 3-12-2013 by Ord. No. 13-1270; amended 3-11-2014 by Ord. No. 14-1285]
INDUSTRIAL FACILITY—Any activity and its related premises, property, facilities or equipment involving the fabrication, manufacture or production of durable or nondurable goods.
LARGE EVENT—Any event to which private citizens or the public are invited to attend, with or without an admission fee, which event may: [Added 10-13-1998 by Ord. No. 977]
A. Require a loudspeaker system, either indoors or outdoors, which amplifies sound so that it is heard across a property boundary line;
B. Impede the normal flow of traffic in the vicinity of the event either through additional traffic volume, additional parking or pedestrian traffic;
C. Require the provision of additional sanitary facilities;
D. Require the presence of standby fire, medical or other emergency vehicles;
E. Otherwise adversely affect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Township.
LEGAL HOLIDAY—Any of the following: New Year's Day; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Presidents Day; Good Friday; Memorial Day; Flag Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day.
MOTOR VEHICLE—A device for carrying passengers, goods or equipment that is propelled or drawn on land by an engine or motor, including motorcycles.
MULTIDWELLING UNIT BUILDING—A structure or series of connected structures containing two or more dwelling units in which two or more families live independently of each other as separate housekeeping units, including twin, duplex, twin duplex and townhouse dwellings, apartment buildings and condominiums.
NOISE—Any sound of such level and duration as to be or tend to be loud, unexpected, disagreeable or injurious to human health or welfare, or which would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the Township or in any portions thereof.
NOISE CONTROL ADMINISTRATOR (NCA)—The Code Enforcement Officer, who shall be the official liaison with all municipal departments and shall be empowered to grant permits for variances.
NOISE DISTURBANCE—Any sound that endangers the safety or health of any person, disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities or endangers or injures personal or real property.
ODORS — Emissions of odorous gases or other odorous matter in such quantities as to be offensive at boundary lines.
PERSON — Any individual, association, partnership, corporation or institution, and includes any officer, employee, department, agency or instrumentality of a state or any political subdivision of a state. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, "person" includes the individual members, partners, officers and managers, or any of them, of partnerships and associations and, as for corporations and institutions, the officers and managers thereof or any of them.
POLICE DEPARTMENT — The Police Department of the Township of Upper Dublin. [Added 10-13-1998 by Ord. No. 977]
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 BOUNDARY LINE — Either the imaginary line, including its vertical extension, that separates one parcel of real property from another or the vertical and horizontal boundaries of a dwelling unit that is one in a multidwelling unit building. All areas devoted to public rights-of-way shall be deemed to be across the property boundary line.
PUBLIC OR COMMON NUISANCE — That which is set up, maintained or continued so as to be injurious to the health or an obstruction to the use of property by interfering with the repose, health, safety or life of any considerable number of persons.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY — Any strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk or alley that is leased, owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
PUBLIC SPACE — Any real property or structure thereon that is owned, leased or controlled by a governmental entity.
RESIDENTIAL AREA — A group of residential properties and the abutting public rights-of-way and public spaces.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY — Property used for human habitation, including but not limited to:
A. Private property used for human habitation.
B. Commercial living accommodations and commercial property used for human habitation.
C. Recreational and entertainment property used for human habitation.
D. Community service property used for human habitation.
SOUND — The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by a vibratory disturbance with frequency in the approximate range between 20 and 20,000 cycles per second. The description of "sound" may include any characteristics of such sound, including duration, intensity and frequency.
SPONSOR — To initiate, pay for, collect money for, provide a location for, assume responsibility for or otherwise facilitate a large event, or one who engages in such activity. [Added 10-13-1998 by Ord. No. 977]
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH — Includes all streams and springs and all other bodies of surface or groundwater, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries of the state.
WEEKDAY — Any day, Monday through Friday, that is not a legal holiday.