Article II — DEFINITIONS

For purposes of the terminology used in this chapter certain words and phrases set out in this section shall be defined as follows:

"Agricultural zoned property" is as defined in the town zoning ordinance regulations in Paradise Municipal Code Title 17.

"Commercial zoned area" is as defined in the town zoning ordinance regulations in Paradise Municipal Code Title 17.

"Construction" means any site preparation, assembly, erection, substantial repair, alteration or similar action, for or of public or private rights-of-way, structure, utilities or similar property.

"Demolition" means any dismantling, intentional destruction or removal of structures, utilities, public or private right-of-way surfaces, or similar property.

"Emergency work" means any work performed for the purpose of preventing or alleviating the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an emergency.

"Gross vehicle weight rating" means the value specified by the manufacture as the recommended maximum loaded weight of a single motor vehicle. In cases where trailers and tractors are separable, the gross combining weight rating, which is the value specified by the manufacture as the recommended maximum loaded weight of the combination vehicle, shall be used.

"Industrial zoned area" is as defined in the town zoning ordinance regulations in Paradise Municipal Code Title 17.

"Licensed" means the possession of a formal license or permit issued by the appropriate jurisdictional authority; or, where no permits or licenses are issued, the sanctioning of the activity by the jurisdiction as noted in public record.

"Mobile noise source" means any noise source other than a fixed noise source.

"Motorboat" means any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion, but does not include a vessel which has a valid marine documents issued by the Bureau of Customs of the United States government or any federal agency successor thereto (Section 651(d), Harbors and navigation Code).

"Motor vehicle" includes any and all self-propelled vehicles as defined in the California Motor Vehicle Code, including all on-highway type motor vehicles subject to registration under the code, and all off-highway type motor vehicles subject to identification under the code.

"Muffler or sound dissipative device" means a device consisting of a series of chambers or baffles plates, or other mechanical design, for the purpose of receiving exhaust as from an internal combustion engine, and effective in reducing noise.

"Noise control office (NCO)" means the municipal agency or department having lead responsibility for administration of this chapter.

"Noise clearly audible" is any sound which, as judged by the noise control office:

Can be heard by reasonable persons of normal sensitivities; or

Endangers or injures personal or real property.

"Person" means any individual, association, partnership, corporation, club or entity.

"Powered model vehicle" means 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.

"Public right-of-way" means any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk or alley or similar place which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.

"Public space" means any real property or structures thereon which are owned or controlled by a governmental entity.

"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.

"Residential zoned area" is as defined in the town zoning ordinance regulations in Paradise Municipal Code Title 17.

"Sound amplifying equipment" means any device for the amplification of the human voice, music or any other sound, excluding standard automobile radios when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicle in which the radio is installed and, as used in the chapter, warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles or horns or other warning devices on any vehicle used only for traffic safety purposes.

"Sound truck" means any motor vehicle, or any other vehicle, regardless of motive power, whether in motion or stationary, having mounted thereon, or attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment.

"Weekday" means any day, Monday through Saturday, which is not a legal holiday. (Ord. 316 §2(part), 1999)