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CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OE LAKESHORE
<br />By-Law No. 106-2007
<br />A BY-LAW TO CONTROL NOISE
<br />WHEREAS the people have a right to and should be ensured an environment free
<br />from unusual, unnecessary, or excessive sound, vibration or other noise that may
<br />degrade the quality and tranquillity of their life or cause a nuisance;
<br />AND WHEREAS it is the policy of the Council to reduce and control such sound or
<br />vibration;
<br />AND WHEREAS the Municipal Act, 2001 authorizes municipalities to prohibit and/or
<br />regulate noise;
<br />NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the Corporation of The Town of Lakeshore
<br />enacts as follows:
<br />Interpretation
<br />1. In this by-law:
<br />"Agricultural Area" means those areas of the municipality designated as
<br />agricultural in the Zoning By-law;
<br />"Construction" includes erection, alteration, repair, dismantling, demolition,
<br />structural maintenance., painting, moving, land clearing, earth moving,
<br />grading, excavating, the laying of pipe and conduit whether above or below
<br />ground level, street and highway building, concreting, equipment installation
<br />and alteration and structural installation of construction components and
<br />materials in any form or for any purpose, and includes any work in connection
<br />therewith;
<br />"Construction Equipment" means any equipment or device designed and
<br />intended for use in construction, or material handling, including but not limited
<br />to, air compressors, pile drivers, pneumatic or hydraulic tools, bulldozers;
<br />tractors, excavators, trenchers, cranes, derricks, loaders, scrapers, pavers,
<br />generators, off-highway haulers or trucks, ditchers, compactors and rollers,
<br />pumps, concrete mixers, graders, or other material handling equipment;
<br />"Conveyance" includes a vehicle and any other device employed to
<br />transport a person or persons or goods from place to place but does not
<br />include any such device or vehicle if operated only within the premises of a
<br />person;
<br />"Council" means the council of the Corporation of The Town of Lakeshore;
<br />"Highway" includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway,
<br />driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle designed and intended for,
<br />or used by, the general public for the passage of vehicles;
<br />"Motor Vehicle" includes an automobile, motorcycle, and any other vehicle
<br />propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power; but does not include
<br />the cars of electric or steam railways, or other motor vehicles running only
<br />upon rails, or a motorized snow vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self-
<br />propelled implement of husbandry or road-building machine within the
<br />meaning of the Mighway Tragic Act;
<br />"Motorized Conveyance" means a conveyance propelled or driven
<br />otherwise than by muscular, gravitational or wind power;
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