8.09.010 Definitions.
For the purpose of the Noise Control Ordinance the following mean:
Audio or Visual Equipment: Includes, but is not limited to compact disc players, phonographs, radios, stereo systems, tape recorders, tape players, televisions, video cassette players, video cassette recorders, drums, electrical instruments.
Noise Sensitive Property: Real property normally used for sleeping, or normally used as schools, churches, hospitals or public libraries. Property used in industrial or agricultural activity is not noise sensitive property unless it meets the above criteria in more than an incidental manner.
Plainly Audible Sound: Unambiguously communicated sound including:
1. spoken speech
2. music; or
3. mechanical or electronic noise.
Premises Open to the Public: Street, parking lot, or other premises open to the general public for the use of motor vehicles, whether the premises are publicly or privately owned and whether or not a fee is charged for the use of the premises.
Public Right of Way: The area between boundary lines of a street or other area dedicated to the public.
Residential Party: A party held in a place of residence, which is a building regularly or intermittently occupied by a person for a dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes, whether or not the resident is actually present.
Sound Producing Source: Anything that is capable of making sounds that can be measured by a sound level meter as provided in section 8.09.030. “Sound producing source” includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1. Air conditioning or heating units, heat pumps, refrigeration units (including those mounted on vehicles), and swimming pool or hot tub pumps;
2. Air horns, bells, or sirens;
3. Audio or visual equipment;
4. Domestic tools, including chain saws, electric drill, electric saws, hammers, lawn mowers, leaf/snow blowers, and similar tools;
5. Loudspeakers or public address system
6. Musical instruments;
7. Spoken speech
8. Vehicle engines or exhaust systems, other than regular traffic upon a highway, road or street;
9. Vehicle tires, when caused to squeal by excessive speed acceleration;
10. Residential parties in a place of residence that are plainly audible to noise sensitive properties that are not the source of the party.
Vehicle. Any device in, upon, or by which any person, animal, or property is or may be transported or drawn upon the highway and includes vehicles that are propelled or powered by any means.