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(f) Violations; additional remedies; injunctions. As an additional remedy, the operation or maintenance, or to permit the operation or maintenance of any activity, device, instrument, vehicle or machinery in violation of any provision of this ordinance, which operation or maintenance causes discomfort or annoyance to reasonable persons or which endangers the comfort, repose, health or peace of residents in the area, shall be deemed and is declared to be a public nuisance and may be subject to abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. (g) Vibration standards. It is illegal and shall be deemed a Class 4 misdemeanor for a person to cause or allow any operation or engage in any activity causing vibrations to be generated which are greater than the perception threshold at any point outside of the boundary of the property where the source of the vibrations is located. The perception threshold is the minimum vibration motion necessary to cause awareness of the existence of the vibration by direct means, including but not limited to, sensation by touch or visual observations. Any vibration which produces more than five-tenths (0.5) inch/second root mean square vertical velocity shall be deemed sufficient to cause the awareness of the existence of the vibration by direct means~ (h) Exceptions. To the extent provided in this section the provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to: (1) The operation of construction devices, with sound control devices equivalent to or better than the original equipment, used in construction activities during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (2) The repair, maintenance or construction of public facilities of the state or municipal governments, or a political subdivision thereof. (3) Emergency work to repair equipment or facilities. (4) The operation of railway equipment and vehicles operated exclusively on rails. (5) The necessary operation of emergency signal devices.