§ 42-32. Definitions.

(a)

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Ambient sound means and includes sounds, such as traffic, aircraft, and other background sounds, including sound levels from sources listed within section 42-34, exemptions.

Amplification system means any machine or device used for the amplification of the human voice, music or any other sound, or by which the human voice, music or any other sound is amplified. Amplification system shall not include vehicle radios, CD's, and/or tape players when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicles in which the radio, CD, and/or tape player is installed. Amplification system shall not include warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles or horns or other warning devices on any vehicles used for traffic safety purposes. Amplification system, shall not include police equipment used for law enforcement purposes or equipment used for emergency work.

Governmental agency means any federal, state, county, municipal, district, board or separate unit of government created or established by law and shall include but not be limited to the state, the county, the city, and the school board of Pasco County.

Intensity means the magnitude of the force or energy of sound per unit area or volume.

Motorcycle means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of a rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding tractors and other farm equipment, and also includes motor scooters, mopeds or other motorized bicycles or three-wheel vehicles.

Motor vehicle shall be defined as set forth in F.S. § 316.003.

Octave-band filter means an instrument calibrated in preferred frequencies, for which criteria have been established by the American Standards Association, used in conjunction with a sound-level meter to take measurements in specific octave bands.

Officer means any City of Dade City Code Enforcement Officer or sworn law enforcement officer employed by the City of Dade City Police Department.

Person means the state or any agency or institution thereof, a municipality, political subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, association or other entity, and includes any officer, employee, agent or governing or managing body of any municipality, political subdivision or public or private corporation.

Plainly audible means any sound produced by a radio, tape player, compact disc player, loudspeaker, or other mechanical or electronic sound-making device, or instrument, including sound produced by a portable sound-making device or any amplification system, that can be clearly heard by an officer using his or her normal hearing faculties at a specified distance from the source.

Public right-of-way means any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk or alley, or similar place normally accessible to the public which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.

Real property line means:

(1)

The legal boundary line including its vertical extension that separates one parcel of real property from another, or

(2)

The vertical and horizontal boundaries of a dwelling unit that is one unit in a multi-dwelling-unit building.

Sound means an oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that causes compression and rarefaction of that medium. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity and frequency.

Sound level means the weighted sound pressure level obtained by the use of a sound level meter and frequency weighting network, such as A, B, or C as specified in American National Standards Institute specifications for sound level meters (ANSI). If the frequency weighting employed is not indicated, the A-weighting shall apply.

Sound level meter means any instrument including a microphone, amplifier, an output meter, and frequency weighting networks for the measurement of noise and sound levels in a specific manner and which complies with standards established by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) specifications for sound level meters.

Sound pressure level means the level of a sound measured in dB units with a sound level meter which has a uniform ("flat") response over the band of frequencies measured.

Volume means the degree of intensity, audibility, quality, strength or loudness of sound.

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

(b)

Miscellaneous definitions. All terms herein which refer to zoning or land use categories (including, but not limited to, "nonresidential zoning districts," "residential zoning district," etc.) shall be defined as set out in the zoning ordinance and/or Land Development Code of the city, as amended, or other ordinances or resolutions duly adopted by the city commission.

(Ord. No. 2014-05, § 1, 5-27-2014)