§ 46-101. Definitions.

For purposes of this article, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the following meanings:

Construction means any site preparation, assembly, erection, substantial repairs, alterations, or similar action, for or on public or private rights-of-way, structures, utilities, or similar property.

Emergency means any occurrence or set of circumstances involving actual or eminent physical trauma or property damage which demands immediate action.

Emergency vehicle means authorized publicly or privately owned ambulances, or motor vehicles belonging to a fire or police department, or to any federal, state, county, or municipal agency provided said vehicles are in use as emergency vehicles by one authorized to use said vehicles for that purpose.

Emergency work means the use of any machinery, equipment, vehicle, manpower, or other activity in an effort to protect, maintain, provide, or restore safe conditions in the community or for the citizenry, or work by private or public utilities when restoring utility service.

Hospital means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment and care of individuals suffering from physical or mental infirmity, illness, disease, injury or deformity, whether or not any such place be organized or operated for profit and whether any such place be publicly or privately owned. The term "hospital" includes facilities providing hospice care. Without limitation, "hospital" does not include convalescent or boarding homes, homes for the aged or other like establishments where room and board only are provided, nor does it include offices or clinics where patients are not regularly kept as bed patients or where out-patient care is primarily only provided.

Motor vehicle means any vehicle which is propelled or drawn on land by a motor such as, but not limited to, passenger cars, buses, street cars, trucks, truck-trailers, semitrailers, campers, go-carts, amphibious craft on land, all terrain vehicles, dune buggies, or racing vehicles, but not including motorcycles.

Motorboat means any vessel which operates on water and which is propelled by a motor, including, but not limited to, boats, barges, amphibious craft, water skis, towing devices, jet skis, bumper boats, and hover craft, but not including racing boats.

Motorcycle means an unenclosed motored-vehicle having a saddle for the use of the operator and two or more wheels in contact with the ground including, but not limited to, motor scooters and minibikes.

Nursing home has the same definition and meaning as defined in MCA 1972, § 73-17-5(6), as amended.

Person means any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, joint venture, or any entity, public or private in nature.

Property boundary or property line means an imaginary line at the ground surface and its vertical extension which separates the real property owned or inhabited by one person from that owned or inhabited by another person, but not including intra-building real property divisions.

Public right-of-way means any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, alley, or similar place normally accessible to the public which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.

Residence or residential area means a single-family, duplex, or multifamily dwelling or an area having such dwellings, including a mobile home park.

Sound equipment means any equipment, machine, or device used for the production, reproduction or amplification of the human voice, music or any other sound including, but not limited to, radios, television sets, phonographs, drums, boom boxes, compact disc (or CD) players, musical instruments, cassette tape players or similar devices.

(Ord. No. 200918, § 1, 12-3-2009)