General definitions.
ANSI
The American National Standards Institute or its successor body.
BEST PRACTICAL NOISE-CONTROL MEASURES
Noise-control devices, technology and procedures which are determined
by the Director of Health to be the best practical, taking into consideration
the age of the equipment and facilities involved, the process employed, capital
expenditures, maintenance cost, technical feasibility and the engineering
aspects of the applicable noise-control techniques in relation to the control
achieved and the non-noise-control environmental impact.
CONSTRUCTION
Any and all physical activity at a site necessary or incidental to
the erection, placement, demolition, assembling, altering, blasting, cleaning,
repairing, installing or equipping of buildings or other structures, public
or private highways, roads, premises, parks, utility lines or other property,
and shall include but not be limited to land clearing, grading, excavating,
filling and paving.
DAYTIME
7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., local time.
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH
The legally designated health authority of the Town of West Hartford
or his/her authorized representative.
EMERGENCY
Any occurrence involving actual or imminent danger to persons or
damage to property which demands immediate action.
EMERGENCY SOUND SIGNAL
An audible electronic or mechanical siren or signal device attached
to an authorized emergency vehicle or within or attached to a building for
the purpose of sounding an alarm relating to fire or civil preparedness. Such
signal may also be attached to a pole or other structure.
EMERGENCY WORK
Work made necessary to restore property to a safe condition following
a public calamity, work required to protect persons or property from an imminent
exposure to danger or work by private or public utilities when restoring utility.
LAWN CARE AND MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT
All engine- or motor-powered garden or maintenance tools intended
for repetitive use in residential areas, typically capable of being used by
a homeowner, and including but not limited to lawn mowers, riding tractors
and snowblowers, and including equipment intended for infrequent service work
in inhabited areas, typically requiring skilled operators, including but not
limited to chain saws, log chippers or paving rollers.
MOTOR VEHICLE REGULATIONS
The Connecticut Motor Vehicle regulations as found in Sections 14-80a-1a
through 14-80a-10a, as amended from time to time.
MOTOR VEHICLES
Defined in accordance with the current definition of "motor vehicle"
in the definitional section of the Motor Vehicle Chapter of the Connecticut
General Statutes, C.G.S. § 14-1, as may be amended from time to
time.
[Amended 4-25-1989; 6-28-1994]
NIGHTTIME
10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., local time.
NOISE DISTRICT
A unit of land that is zoned for either residential, business or industrial purposes in accordance with Chapter
177, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of West Hartford.
NOISE SOURCE
Any individual, equipment, machine or other item or thing that creates
a sound.
NOISE ZONE
An individual unit of land or a group of contiguous parcels under
the same ownership as indicated by public land records and, as relates to
noise emitters, includes contiguous publicly dedicated street and highway
rights-of-way, railroad rights-of-way and waters of the state.
OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Act and any amendments thereto
or successor regulations administered by the United States and Connecticut
Departments of Labor, or successor bodies.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company,
trust, corporation, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision
of the state or other legal entity of any kind.
SAFETY AND PROTECTIVE DEVICES
Devices that are designed to be used, and are actually used, for
the prevention of the exposure of any person or property to imminent danger,
including but not limited to unregulated safety-relief valves, circuit breakers,
protective fuses, backup alarms required by OSHA or other state or federal
safety regulations, horns, whistles or other warning devices associated with
pressure buildup.
SITE
The area bounded by the property line on or in which a source of
noise exists.
SOUND-AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT
Any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music
or any other sound. Sound-amplifying equipment shall not include standard
automobile radios when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicle
in which the automobile radio is installed. Sound-amplifying equipment, as
used in this chapter, shall not include warning devices on authorized emergency
vehicles or horns or other warning devices on any vehicle used only for traffic
safety purposes.
VARIANCE
A difference between the standards which are required by this chapter
and that which is permitted to exist.