The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings herein given, except where the context clearly
indicates a different meaning:
AMBIENT NOISE
The all-encompassing noise associated with a given environment,
being usually a composite of sounds from many sources near and far.
CONSTRUCTION OPERATION
The erection, repair, renovation, demolition or removal of
any building or structure and the excavation, filling, grading and
regulation of lots in connection therewith.
EMERGENCY
Any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or
imminent physical trauma or property damage.
EMERGENCY WORK
Any work performed for the purpose of preventing or alleviating
the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an
emergency.
IMPULSIVE SOUND
Sound of short duration, usually less than one second, with
an abrupt onset and rapid decay. Examples of impulsive sound include
explosions, drop-forge impacts and the discharge of firearms.
MOTOR CARRIER VEHICLE
A truck, truck tractor or combination having a gross weight
or registered gross weight in excess of 17,000 pounds.
MOTOR VEHICLE
A vehicle, which is self-propelled, except one which is propelled
solely by human power or by electric power obtained from overhead
trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
NOISE
Characterized as unwanted sound. Any sound which annoys or
disturbs humans or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological
or physiological effect on humans.
NOISE DISTURBANCE
Any sound which does any of the following:
(1)
Endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals.
(2)
Is unusual for the time of day or location where it is produced
or heard.
(3)
Annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
(4)
Endangers or injures personal or real property.
(5)
Jeopardizes the value of property or erodes the integrity of
the environment.
PERSON
Any individual, association, partnership or corporation,
and includes any officer, employee, department, agency or instrumentality
of a state or any political subdivision of a state. Whenever used
in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, "person" includes
the individual members, partners, officers and managers or any of
them, of partnerships and associations, and as to corporations, the
officers and managers thereof or any of them.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE
Any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her
unaided ear. As an example, if the sound source under investigation
is emitted from a stereo or TV, the enforcement officer need not determine
the title of a song, or TV show, specific words, the artist or actors
performing the song. The detection of any sound coming from the operation
of such a device is sufficient to constitute a plainly audible sound.
POWERED MODEL VEHICLE
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.
PROPERTY LINE (BOUNDARY)
An imaginary line drawn through the points of contact of
adjoining lands, apartments, condominiums, townhouses and duplexes
owned, rented or leased by different persons, a demarcation or a line
of separation of properties, and also, for any two or more buildings
sharing common grounds, the line drawn midway between any two such
buildings. All areas devoted to public rights-of-way shall be deemed
to be across the property line. For the purpose of this definition,
the property line includes all points on a plane formed by projecting
the property line in a manner deemed appropriate by the enforcing
police officer.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, alley or
similar place which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
PUBLIC SPACE
Any real property or structures thereon which are owned or
controlled by a governmental entity.
REAL PROPERTY
All land, whether publicly or privately owned, whether improved
or not improved, with or without structures, exclusive of any areas
devoted to public rights-of-way.
RESIDENTIAL AREA
The portion of the Borough located to the south of the Enola
Low Grade Line.
SOUND
An oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle
velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces
that cause compression and rarefaction of that medium, or the superposition
of such propagated oscillation which evokes an auditory sensation.
The description of sound may include any characteristics of such sound,
including duration, intensity and frequency.
TRUCK
A motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for
the transportation of property.
TRUCK TRACTOR
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other
vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part
of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used
exclusively upon rails or tracks.