Windsor : Règlement no 6716, art. 1(1) — Noise By-law

In this by-law,

• (a) "Construction" includes erection, alteration, repair, dismantling, demolition, structural maintenance, painting, moving, land clearing, earth moving, grading, excavating, the laying of pipe and conduit whether above or below ground level, street and highway building, concreting, equipment installation and alteration and the structural installation of construction components and materials in any form or for any purpose, and includes any work in connection therewith;
• (b) "Construction Equipment" means any equipment or device designed and intended for use in construction or material handling, including but not limited to, air tools, bulldozers, tractors, excavators, trenchers, cranes, derricks, loaders, scrapers, pavers, generators, off-highway haulers or trucks, ditchers, compactors and rollers, pumps, concrete mixers, graders or other material handling equipment;
• (c) "Conveyance" includes a vehicle and any other device employed to transport a person or persons or goods from place to place but does not include any such device or vehicle if operated only within the premises of a person; - 2 -
• (d) "Corporation" means The Corporation of the City of Windsor;
• (e) "Council" means the Council of The Corporation of the City of Windsor;
• (f) "Highway" includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle designed and intended for, or used by, the general public for the passage of vehicles;
• (g) "Minister" means Minister of the Environment;
• (h) "Ministry" means Ministry of the Environment;
• (i) "Motor Vehicle" includes an automobile, motorcycle, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power; but does not include the cars of electric or steam railways, or other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow machine, traction engine, farm tractor, self- propelled implement of husbandry or road-building machine within the meaning of the Highway Traffic Act;
• (j) "Motorized Conveyance" means a conveyance propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular, gravitational or wind power;
• (k) "Municipality" means the land within the geographic limit of the City of Windsor;
• (l) "Noise" means unwanted sound;
• (m) "Noise Control Officer" means a Police Officer of the City of Windsor or any person designated by Council as responsible for the administration of this by-law from time to time;
• (n) "Point of Reception" means any point on the premises of a person where sound or vibration originating from other than those premises is received.