§ 9.08.060. Definitions.

1.

"Authorized enforcement personnel" means the Revere Police Department and the Department of Inspectional Services.

2.

"Construction" means any site preparation, assembly, erection, substantial repair, alteration, or similar action, but excluding demolition, for or of public or private rights-of-way, structures, utilities or similar property.

3.

"Daytime" means the period between the hours of seven a.m. and six p.m. daily except Sunday and holidays according to the time system locally in effect.

4.

"dB" means the abbreviation for decibel.

5.

"dB(A)"means the A-weighted sound level in decibels, as measured by a general purpose sound level meter complying with the provisions of Specifications for Sound Level Meters (S1. 4 1971), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), properly calibrated, and operated on the "A" weighting network.

6.

"Demolition" means any dismantling, intentional destruction or removal of structures, utilities, public or private right-of-way surfaces, or similar property.

7.

"Emergency" means any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or imminent physical trauma or property damage which demands immediate action.

8.

"Emergency work" means any work performed for the purpose of preventing or alleviating the physical trauma or property damage threatened or caused by an emergency.

9.

"Hz" means the abbreviation for Hertz, which means cycles per second.

10.

"Impact device" means a construction device in which or by which a hammer, meaning a moving mass of hard solid material, is mechanically by means of a working fluid or compressed air caused to repetitively impact upon and transmit kinetic energy to a tool. The tool may be included as a part of the device, as in the case of a moil on a paving breaker or the drill steel of a jackhammer, or it may be a mass to which the impact device is temporarily connected as in the case of a pile and pile driver. Examples of impact devices are pile drivers, paving breakers and power impact hammers, impact wrenches, riveters and stud drivers.

11.

"Lot line" means an imaginary line along the ground surface, and its vertical extension, which separates the real property owned by one person from that owned by another person, but not including intra-building real property divisions.

12.

"Motor vehicles" means any vehicle so defined in G.L., c. 90, § 1.

13.

"Motorcycle" means any vehicle so defined in G.L., c. 90, § 1.

14.

"Noise disturbance" means any sound which (a) causes temporary or permanent hearing loss in persons exposed; or (b) is injurious to the public health; (c) causes a nuisance which is prohibited by law; or (d) is defined as a noise disturbance pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

15.

"Person" means 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.

16.

"Public right-of-way" means any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk or alley or similar place which is owned or controlled by the City.

17.

"Public space" means any real property or structures thereon which are owned or controlled by the city.

18.

"Sound pressure level" is numerically equal to twenty times the logarithm (to the base ten) of the sound pressure to the reference sound pressure (the reference sound pressure shall equal twenty micropascals). Unless otherwise stated, the level is understood to be that of a root mean-square pressure.

19.

"Weekday" means any day Monday through Friday which is not a legal holiday.

(C.O. 12-192, § 15, 10-15-2012)