Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following
terms shall mean:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Every ambulance, police vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense
emergency vehicle and emergency ambulance service vehicle defined
in Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York.
COMMERCIAL OPERATION
Any business or commercial activity that involves the purchase,
sale or utilization of goods or services to the public, including,
but not limited to, commercial drinking and dining establishments,
motor vehicle services, retail and wholesale services, banks and office
buildings, recreation and entertainment facilities, community services
and public services.
DEVICE
Any machine, mechanism, instrument or equipment which is
intended to or which actually produces, transmits, receives, reproduces
or retransmits sound or vibration, television signals or radio signals.
EMERGENCY OPERATION
The operation or parking of an authorized emergency vehicle
when such vehicle is engaged in transporting a sick or injured person,
pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law or responding
to or working or assisting at the scene of an accident, disaster,
police call, alarm of fire or other emergency. "Emergency operation"
shall not include return from such service.
MOTORBOAT
Any vessel which operates on the water and which is propelled
by a motor, including, but not limited to, boats, barges, amphibious
crafts, water-ski towing vessels and jet skis.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public highway which
is propelled by any power other than muscular power, except:
(1)
Electrically driven invalid chairs being operated
or driven by an invalid; and
(2)
Vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks.
OFF-ROAD RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
Any vehicle which is propelled by any power other than muscular
power that is designed for or capable of cross-country travel, such
as a motorcycle, trail bike, minibike and snowmobile.
OWNER
Any person who has regular control of a device or site, including,
but not limited to, the owner of the freehold of the premises or a
lesser estate therein, or mortgagee thereof, or an agent or employee
of such person.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, public or private corporation,
association, firm, organization, group of individuals, or any other
legal entity whatsoever.
PLACE OF PUBLIC RESORT
Any commercial operation or any place of any description
where the broad class of persons who constitute the public:
(1)
Has a right to go for frequent assemblies; or
(2)
Is invited or permitted to go either without
charge or upon payment of a fee.
RESIDENCE
Any apartment, condominium, cooperative apartment, townhouse,
home, house or dwelling which is used by any person for living quarters.
SOUND-REPRODUCTION DEVICE
Any device that is designed to be used or is actually used
for the production or reproduction of sound, including, but not limited
to, any musical instrument, radio, television, tape recorder, phonograph
or any other sound-amplifying device.
SOUND-SIGNAL DEVICE
Any device that is designed to be used or is actually used
to produce a sound signal, but not spoken language, including, but
not limited to, any claxon, horn, whistle, bell, gong, siren, rattle,
clapper, hammer, drum or air horn.
TOBACCO
The term "tobacco" shall include any product that contains
tobacco, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipes,
chew, snuff, as well as any form of smokeless tobacco.
[Added 5-24-2010 by L.L.
No. 4-2014]
UNREASONABLE NOISE
Any excessive or loud sound which disturbs, injures or endangers
the peace, comfort, order, repose or health of a neighborhood or the
public.
ZONING DISTRICT
The same meaning as provided in Chapter
106 of the Code of the Village of Saranac Lake.