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The following words and terms, when used in this ordinance, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Terms not defined in this ordinance have the same meaning as those defined in N.J.A.C.. 7:29.
“Construction” means any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration or similar action of buildings or structures.
“dBC” means the sound level as measured using the “C” weighting network with a sound level meter meeting the standards set forth in ANSI S1.4-1983 or its successors. The unit of reporting is Db(C). The “C” weighting network is more sensitive to low frequencies than is the “A” weighting network.
“Demolition” means any dismantling, destruction or removal of buildings, structures, or roadways.
“Department” means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
“Emergency work” means any work or action necessary at the site of an emergency to restore or deliver essential services including, but not limited to, repairing water, gas, electricity, telephone, sewer facilities, or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees on public rights-of-way, dredging navigational waterways, or abating life-threatening conditions or a state of emergency declared by a governing agency.
“Impulsive sound” means either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple pressure peaks) that has a duration of less than one second.
“Minor Violation” means a violation that is not the result of the purposeful, reckless or criminally negligent conduct of the alleged violator; and/or the activity or condition constituting the violation has not been the subject of an enforcement action by any authorized local, county or state enforcement agency against the violator within the immediately preceding 12 months for the same or substantially similar violation.
“Motor vehicle” means any vehicle that is propelled other than by human or animal power on land.
“Muffler” means a properly functioning sound dissipative device or system for abating the sound on engines or equipment where such device is part of the normal configuration of the equipment.
“Multi-dwelling unit building” means 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” means any distinct parcel of land that is used for more than one category of activity. Examples include, but are not limited to:
1.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
2.A building, which is both commercial (usually on the ground floor) and residential property, located above, below or otherwise adjacent to.
“Noise Control Officer” (NCO) means 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 an employee of a municipality with a Department-approved model noise control ordinance. All NCOs must receive noise enforcement training as specified by the Department in N.J.A.C. 7:29 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.