A. “Alarm system” has the meaning as provided in BC 7.15.015.

B. “False alarm” has the meaning as provided in BC 7.15.015.

C. “Highway” means every public way, road, street, thoroughfare, and place, including bridges, viaducts, and other structures in the City, open, used, or intended for use of the general public for vehicles or vehicular traffic as a matter of right.

D. “Noise-sensitive area” includes, but is not limited to, a sleeping facility, or real property normally used as a school, church, hospital, or public library.

E. “Person” has the meaning as provided in BC 1.01.020.

F. “Plainly audible” means any sound that can be heard by a reasonable individual of ordinary sensitivities using the individual’s unaided hearing faculties, including understandable spoken words, comprehensible musical rhythms, and vocal sounds other than words.

G. “Premises open to the public” includes any premises open to the general public for the use of motor vehicles whether the premises are publicly or privately owned and whether or not a fee is charged for the use of the premises.

H. “Public space” means any real property or structures on real property, owned by a government entity and normally accessible to the public, including, but not limited to, parks and other recreational areas.

I. “Residential area” means an area of the City that is designated as a residential land use district under the City’s Development Code.

J. “Residential care facility” means a living facility for more than five nonrelated individuals, which provides specialized care, supervision, treatment or training, or a combination of these for residents. This use classification includes but is not limited to assisted living facilities, congregate care facilities, nursing homes, convalescent homes and sanatoriums.

K. “Sleeping facility” includes, but is not limited to, a residential dwelling, hotel, motel, or residential care facility. [BC 5.15.015, added by Ordinance No. 4679, 3/1/16]