For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and phrases used herein are defined as follows:
(a) “Commercial (land use)” means all areas not otherwise classified as residential, as defined in this section.
(b) “Construction” means any site preparation, any assembly, erection, substantial repair, alteration or similar action, excluding demolition, for or on public or private rights-of-way, structures, utilities or similar property.
(c) “Daytime” means 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. the same day.
(d) “Demolition” means any dismantling, intentional destruction or removal of structures from the utilities, public or private right-of-way surfaces, or similar property.
(e) “Emergency” means any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or imminent physical trauma or property damage which necessitates immediate action. Economic loss shall not be the sole determining factor in the determination of an emergency. It shall be the burden of an alleged violator to prove an "emergency".
(f) “Emergency work” means any work made necessary to restore property to a safe condition following an emergency, or to protect property threatened by an imminent emergency, to the extent such work is necessary to protect persons or property from exposure to imminent danger or damage.
(g) “Frequency” means the number of complete oscillation cycles per unit of time.
(h) “Impulsive sound” means sound of short duration, usually less than one second, with an abrupt onset and rapid decay. Examples of sources of impulsive sound include explosions, drop forge impacts, and discharge of firearms.
(i) “Nighttime” means 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the following day.
(j) “Noise” means any sound which disturbs humans or other animals, or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological or physiological effect on humans or other animals.
(k) “Noise disturbance” means any sound which:
(1) Disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities;
(2) Is plainly audible as defined in this section.
(l) “Person” means any person, person's firm, association, copartnership, joint venture, corporation, or any entity public or private in nature.
(m) “Plainly audible” means any sound or noise produced by any source, or reproduced by a radio, tape player, television, CD player, electronic audio equipment, musical instrument, sound amplifier or other mechanical or electronic sound-making device, or non-amplified human voice that can be clearly heard by a person using his/her normal hearing faculties, at a distance of 200 feet or more from the real property line of the source of the sound or noise.
(n) “Public right-of-way” means any street, avenue, boulevard, sidewalk, bike path or alley, or similar place normally accessible to the public which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
(o) “Public space” means any lot, the land which contains at least one building that is open to the general public during its hours of operation.
(p) “Reasonable time” is 15 minutes in the case of non-vehicular sound emitters and two calendar days for vehicular sound emitters.
(q) “Residential (land use)” means all areas designated as "residential districts" as well as hospitals, public and private elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities; areas designated as "conservation districts"; areas designated as planned development districts that contain dwelling units; and places of religious assembly.
(r) “Sound” means an oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that causes compression and rarefaction of that medium. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity and frequency.
(s) “Weekday” means any Monday through Friday that is not a "paid holiday" as defined in F.S. §110.117(1). (Ord. 4269. Passed 6-24-08.)