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Timestamp: 2017-03-28 08:04:14
Document Index: 585006970

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 283', '§ 287', '§ 335', '§ 335', '§ 335', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 20', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1']

Village of Rockville Centre, NY General Provisions
Definitions, interpretation and word usage.
Dog Enumerators
Village Liability
Amusement and Gaming Devices
Automobile Sales, Secondhand
Buildings and Premises, Dangerous and Unsafe
Buildings, Rehabilitation of
Dry-Cleaning Machines, Coin-Operated
Electricians, Master
Fortune-Telling, Clairvoyance, Phrenology
Gasoline Sale and Service Stations
Illicit Discharges, Activities and Connections to Storm Sewer System
Landscapers and Gardeners; Tree Services
Public Assembly Places, Licensing of
Security Gates Within Business Districts
Storage Containers, Temporary
Planning Board; Site Plan Review; Subdivision of Land
Signs and Posting Bills
of the Village of Rockville Centre as indicated in article histories.
[Adopted 2-22-1971 by L.L. No. 1-1971 as Ch. 1, Art. I, of the 1971 Code]
In the definition of terms and construction
of all ordinances hereby enacted or hereafter to be enacted the following
rules shall be observed unless excluded by express provision, or when
to do so would be inconsistent with manifest intent of the ordinance:
The words of the masculine gender include the feminine and
the neuter gender and may refer to a corporation, or to a board or
other body or assembly of persons, and when the sense so indicates,
the words of the neuter gender may refer to any gender.
Each of the terms "heretofore" and "hereafter" in any provision
of the ordinance relates to the time such provision takes effect.
Includes a corporation, an association, partnership and firm,
as well as an individual, unless such extension is clearly inapplicable.
Words in the singular number include the plural, and in the
plural number include the singular.
Whenever used without modifying words or qualifications "Village"
shall mean the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre, New York,
and the designation of any board, commission, committee, official
or agency shall mean that of the Incorporated Village of Rockville
Centre, New York. The words "Village Board" or "Board of Trustees"
shall mean the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Rockville
[Amended 5-18-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
otherwise provided by law or by specific enactment, the penalty for
each violation of any provision of this Code shall be a sum of money
not exceeding $250, imprisonment for a period not to exceed 15 days,
or both such fine and imprisonment. In addition, unless otherwise
provided by law or by specific enactment, a violation of any provision
of this Code shall constitute an offense.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this section, the monetary penalty for each violation of the following provisions of this Code shall be as provided hereinafter, in the place and stead of any lesser monetary penalty provided for any such violation and in addition to any other penalty which may be provided by law:[Amended 5-3-2010 by L.L. No. 6-2010]
(for each day on which a violation occurs)
§ 115-1 and 115-14
Violation of Code or New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code or International Building Code
Alteration without permit
§ 115-23(b)
Illicit discharge into storm sewer; other violations of chapter
Not less than $500, nor more than $1,000, for the first violation
in a six-month period; not less than $1,000, nor more than $2,500,
for each subsequent violation within six months
Landscape/gardeners
$350, except $500 for violations of 219-8(C)
Indecent acts, displays or signs
Depositing material on property without permit – for all
dumpsters, scaffolding, piles of bricks or dirt
Litter – all garbage and debris
Garbage out at improper hours or uncovered
$350 for two-family residential properties; $750 for all other
properties other than one-family residential properties
§ 283-37
Unlicensed private waste hauler
Sidewalk work without permit
§ 287-25 and 26
Road opening without permit
Improper swimming pool – permit or fencing
§ 335-9
Commercial signs without permit
§ 335-11
No posting bills
§ 335-15
Improper real estate sign – permit, location
[Adopted 3-10-2003 by L.L. No. 5-2003[1]]
Editor's Note: This local law was originally adopted as Art. I, §§ 1-1 through 1-13, but was redesignated as Art. II, §§ 1-3 through 1-15, to maintain the style of the Code.
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws and ordinances of the Village of Rockville Centre, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 340, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Rockville Centre," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws and ordinances contained in the "Code of the Village of Rockville Centre" to any other local law or ordinance appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such local law or ordinance had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws and ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law are intended as a continuation of such local laws and ordinances and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law or ordinance. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Rockville Centre, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-5 below.
permanent nature of the Village of Rockville Centre in force on the
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in § 1-5 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
under any legislative provision of the Village of Rockville Centre
prior to the effective date of this local law or any action or proceeding
the Village of Rockville Centre or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture
of the Village of Rockville Centre.
Village of Rockville Centre.
E. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Rockville
Centre providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening,
highway, park or other public place within the Village of Rockville
Centre or any portion thereof.
F. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Rockville
Centre appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing
bond of the Village of Rockville Centre or other instruments or evidence
of the Village's indebtedness.
sale, lease or transfer of property, or any lawful contract, agreement
L. Any local law or ordinance relating to or establishing
a pension plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
M. Any local law or ordinance or portion of a local law
or service obtained from the Village.
N. Any local law adopted subsequent to 10-21-2002.
article, chapter or part of this local law or of any local law or
ordinance included in this Code now or through supplementation shall
be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
been filed in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Rockville
Centre and shall remain there for use and examination by the public
law shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified by the Village
Clerk of the Village of Rockville Centre by impressing thereon the
Seal of the Village of Rockville Centre, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of said Village Clerk to be made available
or supplements to any of the local laws and ordinances known collectively
as the "Code of the Village of Rockville Centre" or any new local
laws or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate
the intention of the Board of Trustees to be a part thereof, shall
of any local law or ordinance contained herein, and such local laws
or ordinances may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time
of the Village of Rockville Centre required to be filed in the office
and all local laws adopted by the Board of Trustees subsequent to
of it, may be purchased from the Village Clerk, or an authorized agent
the Board of Trustees. The Clerk may also arrange for procedures for
the periodic supplementation of the Code.
or portion of the Code of the Village of Rockville Centre or who alters
the legislation of the Village of Rockville Centre to be misrepresented
In compiling and preparing the local laws and
ordinances for publication as the Code of the Village of Rockville
Centre, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws and
ordinances have been made, except as provided for in Subsection B
hereof.[1] In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor
nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said pieces of
legislation. It is the intention of the Board of Trustees that all
such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the local laws and
ordinances had been previously formally amended to read as such.
Editor's Note: No substantive changes were
made in the compilation and preparation of the Code, hence there is
no Subsection B.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article II of Chapter 1 of the Code of the Village of Rockville Centre, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article I, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§ 1-3 to 1-15, inclusive.