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, ~ - ' x. ~.. w ' .', CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED - ORDINANCE N0. 77-_12.6 PAGE 3. (n) "Noise Disturbance" means any sound which (a) endangers or injures the safety or health of humans or animals, or (b) annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or (c) endangers or injures personal or real property. (o) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership, or corporation, and includes any officer, employee, department, agency or instrumentality of a state or any political sub- division of a State. (p) "Place of Public Entertainment" means any commercial facility open to the general public for purposes of entertainment. (q) "Powered Model Vehicle" means any self-propelled airborne, waterborne or land borne plan, vessel, or vehicle, which is not designated to carry persons including but not limited to, any model airplane, boat, car or rocket. (r) "Public Right-Of-Way" means any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, or alley or similar place which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity. (s) "Public Space" means any real property or structures thereon which are owned or controlled by a governmental entity. (t) "Real Property Boundary" 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. (u) "Residential Area" means those areas specified in Chapters 1151 and 1205 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code. (v) "Retail Area" means those areas specified in Chapters 1171 and 1173 of the North Olmsted Zoning Code. (w) "RMS Sound Pressure" means the square root of the time averaged square of the sound pressure, denoted Prms. (x) "Sound" means an oscillation in pressure, particle dis- placement, particle velocity or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that causes compression and rare- faction of that medium. The description of sound may include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity and frequency. (y) "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 the American National Standards Institute specifications for sound level meters (ANSI S1.4-1971), or the latest approved revision thereof). If the frequency weighting employed is not indicated, the A-weighting shall apply. (z) "Sound Level Meter" means an instrument which includes a microphone, amplifier, RMS detector, integrator or time averager, output meter, and weighting networks used to measure sound pressure levels. (aa) "Sound Pressure" means the instantaneous difference between the actual pressure and the average or barometric pressure at a given point in space, as produced by sound energy. .._ ._ _. _m _.. .... _.~..,~..~,w _ _._ _ .~.,, ., ._