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CODE OF ORDINANCE CITY OF WAUKEE, IOWA
SUPPLEMENT RECORD
CHAPTER 1 CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 2 CHARTER
CHAPTER 3 BOUNDARIES
CHAPTER 4 MUNICIPAL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 5 OPERATING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 6 CITY ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 7 FISCAL MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 8 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS
CHAPTER 9 URBAN RENEWAL
CHAPTER 15 MAYOR
CHAPTER 16 MAYOR PRO TEM
CHAPTER 17 CITY COUNCIL
CHAPTER 18 CITY CLERK
CHAPTER 19 FINANCE DIRECTOR
CHAPTER 20 CITY ATTORNEY
CHAPTER 21 CITY ADMINISTRATOR
CHAPTER 22 LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAPTER 23 BOARD OF APPEALS
CHAPTER 24 PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD
CHAPTER 25 PUBLIC ART ADVISORY COMMISSION
CHAPTER 26 PARK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 27 SUGAR CREEK MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE
CHAPTER 28 TRIUMPH PARK
CHAPTER 30 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 35 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 40 PUBLIC PEACE
CHAPTER 41 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 42 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
CHAPTER 45 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND INTOXICATION
CHAPTER 46 MINORS
CHAPTER 50 NUISANCE ABATEMENT PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 51 JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES
CHAPTER 52 NOISE CONTROL
CHAPTER 55 ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONTROL
CHAPTER 56 DANGEROUS AND VICIOUS ANIMALS
CHAPTER 57 URBAN CHICKENS
CHAPTER 60 ADMINISTRATION OF TRAFFIC CODE
CHAPTER 61 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
CHAPTER 62 GENERAL TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 63 SPEED REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 64 TURNING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 65 STOP OR YIELD REQUIRED
CHAPTER 66 LOAD AND WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS
CHAPTER 67 PEDESTRIANS
CHAPTER 68 PARKING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 70 TRAFFIC CODE ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 75 ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES AND SNOWMOBILES
CHAPTER 76 BICYCLE REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 77 SKATEBOARDS
CHAPTER 80 ABANDONED VEHICLES
CHAPTER 90 WATER SERVICE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 91 WATER METERS
CHAPTER 92 WATER RATES
CHAPTER 93 WATER WELL PROTECTION
CHAPTER 95 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 96 BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER 97 ON-SITE WASTEWATER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 98 SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
CHAPTER 99 CONNECTION FEE DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 100 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY
CHAPTER 101 ILLICIT DISCHARGE TO STORM SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 102 CONSTRUCTION SITE EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CHAPTER 103 POST-CONSTRUCTION STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 104 REGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER, COMMERCIAL WASTEWATER AND HAULED WASTE
CHAPTER 105 SOLID WASTE CONTROL
CHAPTER 106 COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 107 MANDATORY RECYCLING PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 110 NATURAL GAS SERVICE RATES AND CHARGES
CHAPTER 111 ELECTRIC ENERGY FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 112 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 115 RIGHT-OF-WAY AND UTILITY INSTALLATION PERMIT REQUIREMENTS
CHAPTER 120 LIQUOR LICENSES AND WINE AND BEER PERMITS
CHAPTER 121 CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO PERMITS
CHAPTER 122 PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
CHAPTER 123 PAWNBROKERS
CHAPTER 124 MASSAGE THERAPY ESTABLISHMENT LICENSE
CHAPTER 135 STREET USE AND MAINTENANCE
CHAPTER 136 SIDEWALK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 137 VACATION AND DISPOSAL OF STREETS
CHAPTER 138 NAMING OF STREETS
CHAPTER 140 CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITIES
CHAPTER 145 MANUFACTURED AND MOBILE HOMES
CHAPTER 150 TREES
CHAPTER 151 TELECOMMUNICATION TOWERS
CHAPTER 155 BUILDING CODES AND REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 156 RESIDENTIAL RENTAL CODE
CHAPTER 160 SITE AND BUILDING DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
CHAPTER 161 LANDSCAPE AND OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENTS
CHAPTER 165 ZONING REGULATIONS DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 166 ZONING REGULATIONS ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 167 ZONING REGULATIONS SIGNS
CHAPTER 168 ZONING REGULATIONS PARKING AND LOADING
CHAPTER 169 ZONING REGULATIONS DISTRICT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 170 FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 175 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 176 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS PLATTING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 177 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS DESIGN STANDARDS
CHAPTER 178 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS REQUIRED IMPROVEMENTS
CHAPTER 179 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ON COMMUNITY FACILITIES
52.02   DEFINITIONS.
Unless otherwise expressly stated or the context clearly indicates a different intention, the following terms have the following meanings. Definitions of technical terms used in this chapter and which are not herein defined shall be obtained from publications of acoustical terminology issued by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
1.   “Application” means the application submitted to the City requesting a noise permit.
2.   “Emergency” means any occurrence of sets of circumstances involving actual or imminent physical or psychological trauma or property damage and which demands immediate action.
3.   “Emergency work” means any work performed for the purpose of alleviating or resolving an emergency.
4.   “Grain elevator” means the grain elevator existing in the City on January 1, 2006.
5.   “Motor vehicle” means any motor-powered vehicle designed to carry at least one passenger or driver and of the type typically licensed for use on the public highways. “Motor vehicle” includes most motorcycles.
6.   “Motorcycle” means any two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle.
7.   “Noise” means any sound that disturbs humans or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological or physiological effect on humans.
8.   “Noise disturbance” means those sounds defined as sounds not allowed in Section 52.04 of this chapter.
9.   “Person,” unless used in such a manner as to denote only a human being, means any firm, partnership, domestic or foreign corporation, association, joint stock company, trust or other association or entity, city, county or state government and subdivisions or agencies thereof; and the federal government and subdivisions and agencies thereof.
10.   “Powered model vehicle” means any self-propelled, airborne, waterborne, or land borne model plane, vessel, or vehicle that is not designed to carry persons, including, but not limited to, any model airplane, boat, car or rocket.
11.   “Public right-of-way” means the traveled portion of any street or alley or similar place which is owned or controlled by the City or other governmental entity.
12.   “Real property boundary” means 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, but not including intra-building real property division.
13.   “Recreational vehicle” means any motor-powered vehicle designed to carry at least one passenger or driver and equipped for use in racing or other recreational events or uses off of public right-of-way on public or private property; except, however, for the purposes of this chapter, any such vehicle that is licensed for use on the public highways is deemed a motor vehicle (or motorcycle if two- or three-wheeled) and not a recreational vehicle. Examples of recreational vehicles are: snowmobiles, minibikes, stock cars and motorboats.
14.   “Residential property” means any property on which is located a building or structure used wholly or partially for living or sleeping purposes.
15.   “Semi-tractor” means any vehicle weighing in excess of one and one-half tons having the capability of towing a semitrailer.
16.   “Sound” means an oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that cause compression and rarefaction of that medium. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity, and frequency.
17.   “Sound equipment” means any radio, record player, tape deck, or compact disc player, loudspeaker, amplifier, sound track, or other device for producing, reproducing, or amplifying sound; however, sound equipment does not include sirens and other equipment used to alert persons to the existence of an emergency; equipment used by law enforcement and other public safety officials in the performance of their official duties; church carillons, bells or chimes; mobile radio or telephone signaling devices; public announcement systems used by the City or at the Waukee football stadium in conjunction with sporting events; or automobile and truck radios or players of recorded music such as compact discs or tapes or other such standard equipment used and intended for the use and enjoyment of the occupants of the vehicle, provided that the sound emitted from the vehicle does not exceed 75 dB(A) when measured at a distance of 25 feet.
18.   “Sound level meter” means an instrument, including a microphone, amplifier, output meter, and weighting networks, which is sensitive to pressure fluctuations. The output meter reads sound pressure levels in decibels when properly calibrated and the instrument is of Type 2 or better as specified in American National Standards Institute, USA Standard Specification for General Purpose Sound Level Meters (S1.4-1971), and Preferred Center Frequencies for Acoustical Measurements (S1.6-1960), or any subsequent nationally adopted standard superseding such standards. A “weighted sound level” or “sound level” means the sound pressure level in decibels as measured on a sound level meter using the “A” weighting network. The level so read shall be designated as dB(A) or dBA. “Decibel” means a logarithmic and dimensionless unit of measure often used in describing the amplitude of sound and is denoted as dB.