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§ 130. Town ordinances. The town board after a public hearing may
enact, amend and repeal ordinances, rules and regulations not
inconsistent with law, for the following purposes in addition to such
other purposes as may be contemplated by the provisions of this chapter
or other laws. In order to accomplish the regulation and control of such
purposes, the town board may include in any such ordinance, rule or
regulation provision for the issuance and revocation of a permit or
permits, for the appointment of any town officers or employees to
enforce such ordinance, rule or regulation and/or the terms and
conditions of any permit issued thereunder, and for the collection of
any reasonable uniform fee in connection therewith. The town clerk shall
give notice of such hearing by the publication of a notice in at least
one newspaper circulating in the town, specifying the time when and the
place where such hearing will be held, and in general terms describing
the proposed ordinance. Such notice shall be published once at least ten
days prior to the day specified for such hearing.
Whenever the constitutionality of any local law, ordinance, rule or
regulation of a town is brought into issue upon a trial or hearing of
any civil cause of action or proceeding in any court, and the town is
not a party to such action or proceeding, notice shall be served upon
the town in accordance with section one thousand twelve of the civil
practice law and rules.
1. Building code. Regulating the manner of construction, alteration,
removal and inspection of buildings and structures of every nature and
description erected or proposed to be erected in said town, and the
materials to be used therefor, and in the case of buildings used for
public assemblage requiring such stairways, doors, halls, exits and
other facilities as may be necessary for the safety, security and
comfort of persons using the same, and prohibiting any construction,
alteration, or removal which does not comply with such regulations. Such
regulations shall be known as the building code of the town.
2. Plumbing code. Regulating the manner of construction, alteration,
removal and inspection of all plumbing and drainage systems in existing
or proposed buildings and structures and the materials to be used
therefor, and the location of cess-pools and sewer systems, the manner
of construction and the materials to be used therefor, and the manner in
which connections shall be made with main sewers, drains and water
mains, and the materials to be used therefor, and prohibiting any
construction, alteration or removal or the use of any materials which do
not comply with such regulations. The town board may either adopt the
standard plumbing code recommended by the state department of health or
may formulate other rules and regulations relating to plumbing. Such
regulations shall be known as the plumbing code of the town.
3. Electrical code. Regulating the manner of construction, alteration,
removal and inspection of all electrical work in existing or proposed
buildings and structures and the materials to be used therefor, and
prohibiting any construction, alteration or removal or the use of any
materials which do not comply with such regulations. Such regulations
shall be known as the electrical code of the town.
3-a. Housing code. Regulating and establishing minimum standards
governing the condition, occupancy, and maintenance of dwellings,
dwelling units, rooming houses, rooming units and premises; establishing
minimum standards governing utilities, facilities, and other physical
components and conditions essential to make dwellings, dwelling units,
rooming houses, rooming units, and premises safe, sanitary and fit for
human habitation; fixing certain responsibilities and duties of owners,
operators, agents, and occupants of dwellings, and dwelling units,
rooming houses, and rooming units; authorizing and establishing
procedures for the inspection of dwellings, dwelling units, rooming
houses, and rooming units, and the condemnation and vacation of those
dwellings, dwelling units, rooming houses, and rooming units unfit for
human habitation. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply only to
one and two family dwellings, provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to affect the power of a town to enact or
adopt local laws, ordinances or regulations, with respect to multiple
dwellings, pursuant to the provisions of section three hundred
twenty-nine of the multiple residence law.
4. Sidewalks. Regulating the manner of construction, reconstruction
and repair of sidewalks, the materials to be used, the grades and the
widths thereof and prohibiting any construction, reconstruction or
repair which does not comply with such regulations; requiring the owner
and occupant of premises abutting on any street where a sidewalk has
been laid, to keep the sidewalk in front of such premises, free and
clear from snow, ice, dirt and other obstructions and upon default
thereof provide for the removal thereof at the expense of the owners of
such premises and that such charge shall become a lien upon the premises
benefited thereby, until paid.
5. Fire prevention. Regulating the erection of buildings where extra
hazardous business is to be carried on and the carrying on of such
business: Regulating the attendance in public buildings and the use of
aisles as standing room for spectators and the erection of fire escapes
on all public buildings: Regulating the construction and use of all
heating systems and devices employing heat or fire or conducting smoke
for any purpose: Establishing fire limits and prohibiting the erection
of frame buildings or structures therein: Preventing and extinguishing
fires and regulating conduct thereat: Regulating the use, sale, storage
and transportation of fire arms, fire works, explosives and inflammables
or prohibiting the use, sale, storage and transportation of any of them:
Requiring the deposit of ashes and waste in safe receptacles and places:
Prohibiting bonfires in the streets and public places and regulating the
manner in which they may be permitted in other places: Requiring the
cutting, trimming and removal of brush, grass and weeds and the removal
of rubbish and the elimination of fire hazards: Protecting and
preserving the property and apparatus of any fire company or department:
Regulating the parking of automobiles or other conveyances in the
locality of fire houses and hydrants: Providing for punishment for
insubordination or disorderly conduct at fires or the wilful neglect or
refusal to obey or the attempt to prevent or obstruct the lawful orders
of a person in charge of the operations of a fire department or fire
company: Preventing damage by fire and protecting property exposed to
destruction by fire: Providing for the voluntary destruction either in
part or in whole of buildings and property to arrest fire or extinguish
the same, and for all other things necessary or helpful for the
prevention of fire or the extinguishing thereof and for such other
further purposes as shall tend to provide for the general safety of
persons and property within the town.
6. Public dump and dumping ground. Prohibiting and/or regulating the
use of any lands within the town as a dump or dumping ground.
7. Use of streets, highways, sidewalks and public places. (a)
Regulating the use of streets, highways, sidewalks and public places by
pedestrians, animals, motor and other vehicles, including local and
interurban street cars; restricting parking of all vehicles therein;
regulating parades and public assemblages therein; regulating or
prohibiting coasting therein; and, subject to the approval of the
department of transportation, requiring railroad companies to employ and
maintain competent flagmen and erect gates at any street or highway
crossing; prohibiting the deposit of any dirt, filth, waste or rubbish
in any street, highway, sidewalk, that part of any waterway within its
jurisdiction or public place or incumbering thereof by any encroachment
of buildings, structures, excavation or otherwise; regulating the manner
in which excavation may be made in or under the streets, highways,
sidewalks or public places and requiring an indemnity bond as a
condition precedent thereto or the town board may require as the
condition precedent thereto, the deposit in cash of such an amount as
the board may determine necessary to cover the probable expense to the
town of the replacement by the town of the street, highway, sidewalk or
public place, and the unexpended balance, if any, shall be refunded to
the depositor; providing for the removal of snow and ice therefrom;
prohibiting the use by owners and occupants of property abutting on
public streets or grounds of barbed wire or similar fences along the
boundaries of such street or grounds.
(b) If the front or other exterior wall of any building erected on or
before the first day of January, nineteen hundred forty, in any town
encroaches not more than six inches upon any street or highway, no
action or proceeding to compel the removal of such wall shall be
instituted or maintained by or on behalf of the town, or by or on behalf
of any person claiming an easement in or title to the portion of the
street or highway on which such wall encroaches, unless such action or
proceeding be commenced within the period of one year from the time this
act takes effect, and unless within such period a notice of the pendency
of such action or proceeding, describing the property on which said
building stands and indexed against the owner thereof, be filed in the
office of the clerk of the county in which the property lies.
(c) If the front or other exterior wall of any building erected after
the first day of January, nineteen hundred forty, in any town encroaches
not more than six inches upon any street or highway, no action or
proceeding to compel the removal of such wall shall be instituted or
maintained by or on behalf of the town, or by or on behalf of any person
claiming an easement in or title to the portion of the street or highway
on which such wall encroaches, unless such action or proceeding be
commenced within the period of one year from the time of the serving of
a notice as hereinafter provided, and unless within such period a notice
of the pendency of such action or proceeding, describing the property on
which said building stands and indexed against the owner thereof, be
filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the property
lies. Any person having any interest in the property on which such
building stands may serve a notice on the town clerk, town supervisor or
on such town officer as the town board shall authorize and direct to
defend or appear in any action or legal proceeding against said town, of
the town in which said property lies, setting forth a brief description
of the property, his interest therein, and the existence of an
encroachment on the street or highway. Such notice, together with proof
or admission of service thereof, shall be filed in the office of the
clerk of the county in which such property lies. The clerk shall index
and record such notice as if it were a notice of the pendency of an
action and shall collect the usual fees for recording and indexing a
notice of the pendency of an action.
(d) If no action be brought within the period hereby limited therefor
the owners and encumbrancers of such property shall be deemed to have an
easement for the maintenance of the encroaching wall so long as the said
wall shall stand, and no longer.
(e) If the front or other exterior wall of any building erected on or
before the first day of January, nineteen hundred sixty-five in any town
encroaches not more than six inches upon any town street or town
highway, the local legislative body of any town may authorize the
maintenance of such encroachment by ordinance during the period of time
the encroaching wall is in existence; provided, however, that such
authorization shall not confer any right or claim to be asserted against
such town or the state.
(f) The owner of real property upon which the front or exterior wall
of any building thereon encroaches upon any town street or highway, may
submit a request, in writing, to the town board of such town for
authorization to maintain such front or exterior wall during the time
such wall is in existence.
(g) Upon presentation of such request, notice thereof shall be given
to the town highway superintendent, who shall recommend to the town
board the proposed action on such request. Within thirty days of the
presentation of such request, the town board shall determine if the
granting of such request shall adversely impact upon the users of the
town street or highway. In the event a determination is made that such
encroachment does adversely impact upon the use of the town street or
highway, such request shall be denied. In the event a preliminary
determination is made that such encroachment may have no adverse impact
upon the use of the town street or highway, the town board shall within
thirty days after the issuance of such preliminary finding, hold a
public hearing upon such request, which public hearing shall be
conducted upon not less than ten days notice to the public. In addition
to such public notice, the owners of property, as determined from the
last completed assessment roll, within five hundred feet of the property
as measured from the intersections of the property lines with the town
street or highway shall be given notice by certified mail of such public
hearing.
(h) If, upon the completion of the public hearing, the town board
determines that such front or exterior wall does not interfere or impede
the right of the public to use such town street or highway, the town
board may grant to the owner of such property a license to continue to
maintain such front or exterior wall during the period such wall is in
existence; provided however, such town shall have the authority to
revoke such license at any time in the event the town board determines
that such town street or highway will be improved and as a result of
such improvement the front or exterior wall will then impede, interfere
with or obstruct traffic or the use of the town street or highway;
provided, further, that such license shall not confirm any right or
claim against such town. In such event the owner of the property shall
be given notice of the proposed action and shall, within the time set
forth in the notice, remove such front or exterior wall from the town
street or highway.
(i) Upon the abandonment of the building or in the event such
building, because of a lack of care enters a state of disrepair, the
owner thereof shall remove such front or exterior wall upon notice from
the town board.
(j) The authority granted to a town pursuant to paragraphs (f), (g),
(h) and (i) of this subdivision may, by local law, be assigned to any
department or agency of the town.
7-a. Location and construction of driveways. Regulating the location
and manner in which driveway entrances and exits may be constructed by
owners and occupants of property abutting on town highways; provided,
however, that such regulations shall not deny access from abutting
property upon town highways, when such abutting property is a legal lot
in accordance with existing statutes and ordinances.
8. Smoke, gases and wastes. Regulating and prohibiting the unnecessary
emission of smoke, noxious gases, deposits, dusts, trade wastes and
other pollutions from buildings, engines, locomotives and other sources,
and regulating, restricting and prohibiting the unnecessary use of
bituminous coal within the town or any portion thereof, when such use
would affect the public health.
9. Animals. Regulating the keeping of calves; regulating and
prohibiting the keeping of swine and mink, restraining the running at
large of horses, cattle, sheep, unmuzzled dogs, whether licensed or not,
fowls and other animals and authorizing the impounding and sale of the
same for the costs of keeping, proceedings and penalty, or the killing
of unmuzzled dogs.
10. Malicious mischief. Punishing the wilful and malicious breaking,
marring, injuring, removing or defacing of any building or structure,
fence, awning, sign board, tree, crop, shrubbery or other property; the
tearing down of notices lawfully posted; the removal or alteration or
any unlawful interference with stakes set out by engineers, surveyors or
otherwise to indicate boundaries or other lines.
11. Peace, good order and safety. Preserving the public peace and good
order; preventing and suppressing vice, immorality, disorderly and
gambling houses and houses of ill-fame, riots and tumultuous
assemblages, unnecessary crowds upon the streets, or in doorways or
stairways adjacent thereto, or loitering about such places, preventing
unreasonably loud or disturbing noises, determined by the board to be of
a character, intensity or duration as to be detrimental to the peace,
welfare or good order of the people, and preventing all disorderly,
noisy, riotous or tumultuous conduct within the town, disturbing the
peace and quiet of the town or any meeting or assembly therein; except
when prohibited by reason of the laws of the United States, regulating
the use of beaches in or adjacent to the town and regulating swimming
and bathing in open water exposed to the public including the use of
underwater diving devices for swimming and fishing, within or bounding
the town or such beaches to a distance of fifteen hundred feet from the
shore and requiring the owners or operators of any bathing beaches, bath
houses or other places charging a fee to the public for the use of any
such facilities to provide adequate safeguards for the protection of
persons bathing in waters adjacent to such premises; prohibiting
profane, vulgar or obscene language or conduct in any street or public
place in the town.
12. Amusements. Regulating public dance halls and all places where
dancing is permitted; specifying the hours during which such dancing may
continue, the supervision thereof, the minimum age of persons allowed to
attend, and all other matters relating to the conduct thereof;
regulating the conduct of circuses, theatres, pool and billiard parlors,
bowling alleys, athletic contests or exhibitions, and all similar places
of amusement for money or hire.
13. Beverages and eating places. Regulating all places selling or
offering for sale at retail for consumption on the premises any beverage
or food stuff; providing for sanitation and cleanliness and the
inspection thereof and defining the opening and closing hours and all
other matters related thereto.
14. Slaughtering houses and rendering works. Regulating the location,
operation, cleaning and removal of slaughter houses, fat, offal or other
rendering or reduction works or establishments and unwholesome and
noisome buildings or places.
15. Promotion of public welfare. Promoting the health, safety, morals
or general welfare of the community, including the protection and
preservation of the property of the town and of its inhabitants, and of
peace and good order, the benefit of trade and all other matter related
thereto, insofar as the same shall not be inconsistent with existing
law.
15-a. Excavated lands. Any town may adopt an ordinance giving to the
appropriate officials of such town, upon the direction of the town
board, the right and power to fill in excavated lands and property if,
after a hearing, the existence of such lands and property are deemed by
the town board to constitute a hazard to public safety and if, after
giving thirty days' notice by certified mail addressed to the owner of
record of such lands and property at the address shown on the last
preceding assessment roll, such excavated lands and property are not
filled in by or on behalf of such owner. Where the excavated lands are
filled in by the town, the cost thereof shall be assessed against such
lands and property by such town officer as may be designated by such
ordinance. The town officer so designated shall serve personally or by
certified mail upon the owner of such property at the same address a
written notice, stating that at a time and place specified therein, he
will assess such cost against such property. Such notice shall be served
at least eight days previous to the time specified therein. If directed
against a corporation, it may be served upon the corporation at its
principal place of business, place of business upon an agent of the
corporation within the town, or upon the secretary of state. Notice
served upon the secretary of state shall be served at least twelve days
previous to the time specified therein. At the time and place so
specified, he shall hear the parties interested, and shall thereupon
complete the assessment, stating therein, the name of each owner and the
amount so assessed, and shall return such assessment to the town clerk
who shall present the same to the town board. Such town board shall
certify such assessment to the board of supervisors who shall cause the
amount stated therein to be levied against such property and any
uncollected assessment shall be a lien upon the land affected. Such
amount shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same
manner as other town taxes, and shall be paid to the supervisor of the
town, to be applied in reimbursing the fund from which such cost was
defrayed.
15-c. Screening facilities in the towns of the counties of Nassau,
Rockland and Westchester and certain towns in the county of Suffolk
required by zoning boards of appeals or zoning ordinances. Any town in
the counties of Nassau, Rockland and Westchester and the towns of
Huntington, Babylon, Brookhaven, Islip, Southampton and Smithtown in
Suffolk county may adopt an ordinance giving to the appropriate
officials of such town, upon the direction of the town board, the right
and power to erect, replace, repair or maintain fences, trees,
plantings, shrubbery or other screening on land located in such town
where such screening facilities are required by direction of a town
board of zoning appeals or by zoning ordinance and there is a failure to
comply with such direction, and if, after giving thirty days' notice by
registered mail addressed to the owner of record of such land at the
address shown on the last preceding assessment roll, such fences, trees,
plantings, shrubbery or other screening are not so erected, replaced,
repaired or maintained by or on behalf of such owner; and the town board
may provide for the assessment of all costs and expenses so incurred by
the town, in connection with any action taken as above, against the land
on which such screening facilities are located.
16. Unsafe buildings and collapsed structures. Providing for the
removal or repair of buildings in business, industrial and residential
sections that, from any cause, may now be or shall hereafter become
dangerous or unsafe to the public; providing as follows:
a. For an inspection and report by an official duly appointed by the
town board;
b. For a notice to be served on the owner or some one of the owner's
executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or any other person
having a vested or contingent interest in same, either personally or by
registered mail, addressed to the last known address, if any, of the
owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives,
agents, lessees or other person having a vested or contingent interest
in same, as shown by the records of the receiver of taxes and/or in the
office of the county clerk or county register, containing a description
of the premises, a statement of the particulars in which the building or
structure is unsafe or dangerous and an order requiring same to be made
safe and secure or removed; and if such service be made by registered
mail, for a copy of such notice to be posted on the premises.
c. For time within which person served with such notice may commence
the securing or removal of buildings or structures;
d. For the filing of a copy of such notice in the office of the county
clerk of the county within which such building or structure is located,
which notice shall be filed by such clerk in the same manner as a notice
of pendency pursuant to article sixty-five of the civil practice law and
rules, and shall have the same effect as a notice of pendency as therein
provided, except as otherwise hereinafter provided in this paragraph. A
notice so filed shall be effective for a period of one year from the
date of filing, provided, however, that it may be vacated upon the order
of a judge or justice of a court of record or upon the consent of the
town attorney. The clerk of the county where such notice is filed shall
mark such notice and any record or docket thereof as cancelled of record
upon the presentation and filing of such consent or of a certified copy
of such order.
e. For a hearing before the town board, notice of which and the time
and place thereof to be specified in the notice to repair or demolish;
served upon the owner and such persons having an interest in the
property or structure as is herein prescribed.
f. For the removal of such building or structure by the town in the
event such owner fails or refuses to repair or remove the same within
the time provided.
g. For the assessment of all costs and expense incurred by the town in
connection with the proceedings to remove or secure, including the cost
of actually removing said building or structure, against the land on
which said buildings or structures are located.
17. Regulation of vessels, personal watercraft and specialty
prop-craft. Except when prohibited by the laws of this state or of the
United States; (1) a. Regulating the speed and regulating and
restricting the operation of vessels, personal watercraft and specialty
prop-craft and, in the counties of Westchester, Saratoga, Warren and
Suffolk the size and horse power of inboard and outboard motors, while
being operated or driven upon any waters within or bounding the town to
a distance of fifteen hundred feet from the shore except that in Nassau
and Suffolk counties, towns may regulate and restrict the speed and
regulate and restrict the operation of vessels in all tidal waters upon
lands within the geographic boundaries of such town and those tidal
waters contiguous with the town to a distance of fifteen hundred feet
from shore and not within any other town. With respect to personal
watercraft and specialty prop-craft, regulations may include a
prohibition of their use provided such prohibition does not prevent
access to federally maintained and designated channels and,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, such prohibition shall not
be adopted unless the town complies with the public hearing requirements
and the requirements for signage as set forth in section forty-six of
the navigation law.
b. Restricting and regulating the anchoring or mooring of vessels in
any waters within or bounding the town to a distance of fifteen hundred
feet from the shore.
c. Restricting and regulating the anchoring or mooring of vessels in
such waters when used or occupied as living or sleeping quarters and,
providing time limits on duration of the stay of such vessels in such
waters and requiring inspection and registration of such vessels when so
used.
d. Restricting and regulating sewage disposal and garbage removal from
said vessels and use of toilets thereon. The term "sewage" as used in
this subdivision shall mean all human body wastes.
e. Designating public anchorage area or areas and regulating the use
thereof.
(2) The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to waters
within or bounding an incorporated village to a distance of fifteen
hundred feet from the shore, jurisdiction with respect to which is
vested in the board of trustees of a village by the provisions of
subdivision one of section forty-six-a of the navigation law.
18. Shellfish. a. Regulating the taking and the manner of taking
clams, oysters, scallops and other shellfish from the lands of or from
waters over the lands of
(1) a town vested with the title to, or holding a lease on, lands
under tidewater in any harbor, bay or creek, and vested with the right
of fishing, or
(2) the trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of a town in which
such trustees are vested with title to such lands and the right of
fishing, provided that such trustees shall file with the town clerk an
application in writing therefor.
b. Such ordinance in either case shall not be less restrictive than
the environmental conservation law or, where such law authorizes the
department to establish lesser restrictions, the regulations made
pursuant to such law, and may provide
(1) that no dredge or scrape shall be used for such purpose except by
a lessee upon lands held by such lessee under lease;
(2) that no dredge or scrape shall be on board of any boat except that
of a lessee while upon water covering lands held by such lessee under
lease and while navigating between the dock, anchorage or moorage used
by such lessee and such leased land;
(3) that no dredge or scrape shall be on board of any boat while used
for taking shellfish from such lands except by a lessee of lands as in
this subdivision provided;
(4) that each person upon a boat upon which there is a dredge or
scrape except as in such ordinance permitted by a lessee shall be a
violator of such ordinance;
(5) That no person shall take any shellfish from such lands, except a
lessee from lands held by such lessee under lease, unless such person
shall have received from the proper and duly constituted authority a
written license or permit permitting such person to take such shellfish,
and a license or permit granted to any person shall upon such person's
conviction of a violation of such ordinance, be terminated and void; and
(6) that any person making unlawful entries upon such lands may be
proceeded against by injunction to restrain a continuing trespass as
well as for violation of said ordinance.
c. Such ordinance shall not apply to the use of a dredge or scrape by
the owner, the town or such trustees, for the purpose of removing
diseased or blighted shellfish from such lands or to any operation by a
town or such trustees incident to transplanting shellfish within such
town.
19. Trespass. Prohibiting trespass to public and private property, for
the purpose of protection and preservation of the property of the town
and of its inhabitants and of peace and good order.
20. Hotels, inns, boarding houses, etc. Regulating hotels, inns,
boarding houses, rooming houses, lodging houses, associations, clubs or
any building or part of a building used in the business of renting
rooms, individual or several, and also private sanatoriums, convalescent
homes, homes for aged or indigent persons, day nurseries, hospitals,
rest homes or any building or part of a building used for similar
purposes, containing a total number of beds, cots or similar equipment
providing sleeping accommodations for more than five persons; specifying
the type of construction, the manner of their running and operation and
prescribing regulations assuring proper sanitation, cleanliness and fire
protection.
21. House trailer camps, tourist camps and house trailers. Regulating
house trailer camps, tourist camps or similar establishments; requiring
approval of suitable plans for house trailer camps and tourist camps and
prescribing regulations therefor including provision for sewer
connection, water supply, toilets, bathing facilities, garbage removal,
registration of occupants, inspection of camps. The town board may
either adopt the provisions of the sanitary code established by the
public health council or may formulate other rules and regulations
relating to house trailer camps, tourist camps or similar establishments
not inconsistent with the provisions of such state sanitary code.
Regulating the parking, storage or otherwise locating of house trailers
when used or occupied as living or sleeping quarters in any part of the
town outside an established house trailer camp, tourist camp or similar
establishment; providing time limits on duration of the stay of such
house trailers and requiring registration of such house trailers when so
used.
22. Air-ports and flying fields. Regulating air-ports and flying
fields, and property or spaces adjacent thereto occupied or used in
connection therewith or in the operation thereof for the purpose of the
parking or accommodation of automobiles or other vehicles; locating and
regulating the flow of vehicular traffic in, to and from such used or
occupied spaces; requiring that such used or occupied spaces be kept
free of stagnant pools of water and other disagreeable odor producing
causes; requiring proper and adequate sanitary facilities, including
toilets, water supply, and garbage or waste containers at suitable
locations thereon and providing for the proper removal of the contents
thereof, and that such spaces be otherwise kept in a clean and sanitary
condition; requiring that any such used portions thereof be kept and
maintained free from dust by the use of oil or other preventative, or by
other means; requiring that the owner thereof adequately police such
properties to prevent the commission of crime and/or injury to person or
property while thereon.
23. Sand pits, quarries, top soil and other excavations. Regulating
the manner of construction on, removal of material from, filling up,
draining, cleaning, operating and using any lands or other premises for
sand or gravel pits, stone quarries, stripping of top soil, or for other
excavation purposes and prohibiting the use of any lands or other
premises for the aforesaid purposes which do not comply with such
regulations.
23-a. The town board of the town of Southold in the county of Suffolk,
is authorized to regulate by ordinance consistent with the provisions of
the public health law and any other general law the raising and keeping
of ducks within such town.
24. Riding stables and riding academies. Regulating, controlling, or
prohibiting riding stables, riding academies, or similar establishments;
requiring approval of plans for the construction and location of
stables; prescribing regulations for the care of horses; regulating
bridle paths and bridle trails; prohibiting or regulating night riding
of horses; and otherwise providing for the care and safety of horses and
riders.
25. Building lines. Establishing building lines in a public highway or
highways and requiring all buildings hereafter erected to be within such
lines.
26. Air guns. Regulating or prohibiting the possession, sale and use
of air guns, spring guns or other instruments or weapons in which the
propelling force consists of springs or air.
27. Firearms. In the towns of Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Islip,
Brookhaven, Riverhead and Southampton, in the county of Suffolk, in the
town of Niskayuna in the county of Schenectady, in the town of Ramapo in
the county of Rockland, in the towns of Irondequoit, Greece, Pittsford,
Brighton, Penfield, Perinton, Webster and Gates in the county of Monroe,
in the town of Colonie in the county of Albany, and in the towns of
Vestal and Union in the county of Broome prohibiting the discharge of
firearms in areas in which such activity may be hazardous to the general
public or nearby residents, and providing for the posting of such areas
with signs giving notice of such regulations, which ordinances, rules
and regulations may be more, but not less, restrictive than any other
provision of law. Thirty days prior to the adoption of any ordinance
changing the five hundred foot rule, a notice must be sent to the
regional supervisor of fish and game of the environmental conservation
department, notifying him of such intention.
28. Billiard rooms. In towns, subject to a permissive referendum,
setting the minimum age of minors to be allowed upon the premises
provided, however, that an ordinance shall only allow such minor upon
the premises when accompanied by adult supervision as part of an
organized youth activity. For purposes of this subdivision an organized
youth activity shall not include activities sponsored primarily by
persons under eighteen years of age.
29. Loitering. Prohibiting and punishing loitering; provided however,
that such ordinance or law shall only prohibit loitering for a specific
illegal purpose or loitering in a specific place of restricted public
access and shall therein set forth guidelines for application of such
prohibitions by law enforcement officers so as to prevent arbitrary or
discriminatory enforcement of such prohibitions.
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