Halifax By-law N-200, s. 2(a) — Noise By-law

“CAO” means the Chief Administrative Officer of the Municipality;

• (aa) “Civic Holiday” means a holiday as set out in By-law H-100, the Civic Holiday By- law;
• (aaa) “concrete finishing” means the process for creating a smooth surface to freshly poured concrete; (aaaa) “concrete pouring” means the deposition, distribution, and consolidation of freshly mixed concrete in the place where it is to harden;
• (ab) "construction" includes erection, alteration, repair, dismantling and demolition of structures and includes structural maintenance, hammering, land clearing, moving of earth, rock or felled trees, grading, excavating, the laying of pipe or conduit whether above or below ground level, working with concrete, alteration or installation of any equipment, the structural installation of construction components or materials in any form whatsoever, the placing or removing of any construction related materials and includes any work in connection therewith; but does not include blasting or rock breaking;
• (b) “Construction equipment” means any equipment or device designed and intended for use in construction or material handling including but not limited to air compressors, air tracks, pile drivers, pneumatic or hydraulic tools, bulldozers, tractors, excavators, trenchers, cranes, derricks, loaders, backhoes, scrapers, pavers, generators, off-highway haulers or trucks, ditchers, compactors and rollers, pumps, concrete mixers, graders and other material handling equipment;
• (c) "Council" means the Halifax Regional Council;
• (d) "Motor vehicle" includes an automobile, motorcycle and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular, gravitational or wind power; but does not include a motorized wheelchair or a car, locomotive or other motor vehicle running only upon rails; a motorized snow vehicle; traction engine; farm tractor; self-propelled implement of husbandry; or road-building machine within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Act;
• (da) “owner” includes as it refers to the owner of property
• (i) a part owner, joint owner, tenant in common or joint tenant of the whole or any part of land or a building,
• (ii) in the case of the absence or incapacity of the person having title to the land or building, a trustee, an executor, a guardian, an agent, a mortgagee in possession or a person having the care or control of the land or building,
• (iii) a person who occupies shores, beaches or shoals, and
• (iv) in the absence of proof to the contrary, the person assessed for the property;
• (e) "Point of reception" means any point on the premises of a person where sound, originating from other than those premises, is received;
• (f) "Property line" is 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 does not include intra-building real property divisions;
• (g) "public address system" means any system comprised of one or more of the following and in any combination: loudspeaker, amplifier, microphone, turntable, reproducer, receiver or tuner, or any other device where such equipment is part of a system used to reproduce or amplify sound;
• (h) "recreational vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is designed to be, or intended to be, used other than on a public highway or on the surface of the water and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all-terrain vehicles, trail bikes and snowmobiles but does not include a motor home or travel trailer for the purposes of this By-Law;
• (i) "residential area" means an area of the Municipality zoned only for residential uses in accordance with the Land Use By-law; and
• (j) “rock breaking” means a method used in construction to demolish concrete structures and rock by using either a jackhammer or a percussion hammer which has been fitted to an excavator. General Prohibition