The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Terms used in Article II and not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning as those defined in N.J.A.C. 7:29.
Any premises, property, or facility involving traffic in
goods or furnishing of services for sale or profit including, but
not limited to:
Banking and other financial institutions;
Dining establishments;
Establishments for providing retail services;
Establishments for providing wholesale services;
Establishments for recreation and entertainment;
Office buildings;
Transportation;
Warehouses; and
Establishments providing living accommodations which exceed
six dwelling units, including, but not limited to, apartments, co-ops,
hotels, motels, and dormitories, when they are the source of the sound
that is being investigated and the source of sound is a heating, air
conditioning pool filter unit or system, or outdoor amplified sound
system.
Any nonresidential facility used to provide services to the
public, including, but not limited to:
Club meeting halls, offices and facilities;
Organization offices and facilities;
Facilities for the support and practice of religion;
Public, private and parochial schools;
Hospitals;
Offices and buildings of agencies or instrumentalities of government;
and
Maintenance centers (such as department of public works facilities).
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration
or similar action, including demolition of buildings or structures.
Any dismantling, destruction or removal of buildings, structures,
or roadways.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple
pressure peaks) that has a duration of less than one second.
Any facility, whether public or private, and its related
premises, property, or equipment involving:
Any vehicle that is propelled other than by human or animal
power on land.
A properly functioning sound-dissipative device or system
for abating the sound of escaping gasses on equipment where such a
device is part of the normal configuration of the equipment.
Any distinct parcel of land that is used for more than one
category of activity. Examples include, but are not limited to:
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, or 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 on the same distinct parcel of land;
or
A building which is both commercial (usually on the ground floor)
and residential property located above, behind, below or adjacent.
Any building composing of two or more dwelling units, including,
but not limited to, apartments, condominiums, co-ops, multiple-family
houses, townhouses, and attached residences.
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.
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.
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 that
is part of a multidwelling-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).
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.
Beginning on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and ending on the following
Monday at 7:00 a.m.
