The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have
the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise. Terms not defined
in this chapter have the some meaning as those defined in N.J.A.C. 7:29.
CONSTRUCTION
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair alteration or similar
action, including demolition of buildings or structures.
DEMOLITION
Any dismantling, destruction or removal of buildings, structures
or roadways.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
EMERGENCY WORK
Any work or action necessary to deliver essential public services,
including but not limited to repairing water, gas, electricity, telephone,
sewer facilities, or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees
on public right-of-way, dredging navigational waterways or abating life-threatening
conditions.
IMPULSIVE SOUND
Either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple pressure
peaks) that has a duration of less than one second.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any vehicle that is propelled other than by human or animal power
on land.
MUFFLER
A properly functioning sound dissipative device or system for abating
the sound of escaping gasses on equipment where such advice is part of the
normal configuration of the equipment.
MULTIDWELLING UNIT BUILDING
Any building comprising two or more dwelling units, including but
not limited to apartments, condominiums, co-ops, multiple-family houses, townhouses
and attached residences.
MULTI-USE PROPERTY
Any distinct parcel of land that is used for more than one category
of activity. Examples include, but are not limited to:
A.
A commercial, residential, industrial or public service property having
boilers, incinerators, elevators, automatic garage doors, air conditioners,
laundry rooms, utility provisions, or health and recreational facilities,
other similar devices or areas either in the interior or on the exterior of
the building which may be a source of elevated sound levels at another category
of the same distinct parcel of land; or
B.
A building which is both commercial (usually on the ground floor) and
residential.
NOISE CONTROL OFFICER
An employee of a local, county or regional health agency which is
certified pursuant to the County Environmental Health Act (N.J.S.A. 26:3A2-21
et seq.) to perform noise enforcement activities; or a municipality with a
Department-approved noise control ordinance and the employee has received
noise enforcement training and is currently certified in noise enforcement.
The employee must be acting within his or her designated jurisdiction and
must be authorized to issue a summons in order to be considered a noise control
officer.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE
Any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her unaided
hearing faculties. As an example, if the sound source under investigation
is a portable or personal vehicular sound amplification or reproduction device,
the detection of the rhythmic bass component of the music is sufficient to
verify plainly audible sound. The noise control officer need not determine
the title, specific words or the artist performing the song.
PRIVATE RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley or
easement that is owned, leased or controlled by a nongovernmental entity.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley or
easement that is owned, leased, or controlled by a governmental entity.
PUBLIC SPACE
Any real property or structures thereon that are owned, leased or
controlled by a governmental entity.
REAL PROPERTY LINE
Either the imaginary line, including its vertical extension, that
separates one parcel of real property from another; the vertical and horizontal
boundaries of a dwelling unit building; or on a multi-use property, the interface
between the two portions of the property on which different categories of
activity are being performed (e.g., if the multi-use property is a building
which is residential upstairs and commercial downstairs, then the real property
line would be the interface between the residential area and the commercial
area).
WEEKDAY
Any day that is not a federal holiday and beginning on Monday at
7:00 a.m. and ending on the following Friday at 6:00 p.m.
WEEKENDS
Beginning on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and ending on the following Monday
at 7:00 a.m.