Richmond Hill : Règlement no 43-20, art. 1.3 — Definitions In this by-law, the following words shall have the following meanings

Definitions In this by-law, the following words shall have the following meanings:

• “Ambient Sound Level” means the sound level that is present in the environment, produced by sound sources other than the source under assessment. “Amplified Sound” means sound made by any electronic device or a group of connected electronic devices incorporating one or more loudspeakers or other electro mechanical transducers, and intended for the production, reproduction or amplification of sound; “Construction” means the erection, alteration, repair, dismantling, demolition, structural maintenance, land clearing, earth moving, grading, excavating, the laying of pipe and conduit (above or below ground level), street/highway building, concreting, equipment installation and alteration, the structural installation of construction components and materials in any form or for any purpose, and includes any work in connection with these activities; “Construction Equipment” means any equipment or device designed and intended for use in Construction or material handling, including but not limited to:
• hand tools, power tools, air compressors, pile drivers, pneumatic or hydraulic 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 similar equipment;
• “Continuous” means occurring continuously for a period of no less than fifteen (15) minutes;
• “Corporation” means the Corporation of the City of Richmond Hill;
• “Council” means council of the Corporation;
• “dB” means the sound level in decibels obtained when using a sound level meter with

no additional weighting; “dB(A)” means the sound level in decibels obtained when using a sound level meter with the A-weighting; P a g e | 3 Director means the Director of Community Standards of the Corporation or a successor office as the case may be; “Domestic Tools” means any tool, equipment or device designed or intended for use for Construction or maintenance of private property by the private property owner where

a building permit is not required including but not limited to:

• air compressors, electric power tools, manual hammers, and similar tools, but does not include Lawn Maintenance Equipment, or equipment used for the removal of snow;
• “Lawn Maintenance Equipment” means any equipment, which uses a combustion or electric motor for the purposes of yard maintenance or repair and includes chain saws, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, grass trimmers, or any other similar equipment, but does not include equipment used to remove snow or ice. “Leq” means the energy equivalent sound level or the continuous sound level that would result in the same total sound energy being produced over a given period. “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 diesel, electric or steam railways, or other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self-propelled implement of animal, husbandry or road-building machine within the meaning of the Highway Traffic Act. “Municipal Act ” means the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25, as amended;
• “Municipal By-law Enforcement Officer” means an individual appointed for purpose of enforcing the provisions of this by-law or any of the by-laws of the Corporation;
• “Noise” means unwanted sound;
• “Order” means an order issued by the Corporation requiring a Person to remedy a contravention of this by-law;
• “Owner” means the registered Owner of a property, Owner in trust, or a mortgagee in possession, a Person who is managing or receiving the rent of the property, a Person who has control over the property, or an occupant over the age of 18. “Persistent” means occurring intermittently for a total of fifteen (15) minutes over a sixty (60) minute period;
• “Person” means an individual or a business, sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, or limited partnership, or an authorized representative thereof;
• “Point Of Reception” means any point on or in a premise of a Person where Noise originating from somewhere other than such premises is received;
• P a g e | 4 “Residential Zone” means any lands designated for a residential use by a zoning by- law enacted by Council pursuant section 34 of the Planning Act, or any successor thereof;
• “Stationary Source” means a source of sound or combination of sources of sound that are included and normally operated within the property lines of a facility, and includes the premises of a Person as one stationary source, unless the dominant source of sound on those premises is covered by a specific section of this by-law;
• (By-law 22-22, February 23, 2022) “Unreasonable Noise” means any Noise that, in the opinion of a Municipal By-law Enforcement Officer, would disturb the peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of a reasonable Person in the circumstance. Unreasonable Noise does not include Noise regulated under a specific prohibition or commonplace household or workplace sounds such as sound from furniture being moved, children playing, laughter or people engaging in normal conversation;