Source: https://ecode360.com/8383919
Timestamp: 2019-08-17 17:12:07
Document Index: 261390815

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246', '§ 246']

Village of East Hampton, NY Solid Waste
Ch 246 Art I Garbage and Rubbish
§ 246-2 Deposit in public places prohibited; exceptions.
§ 246-3 Litter from vehicles.
§ 246-4 Deposit in parks prohibited.
§ 246-5 Deposit in bodies of water prohibited.
§ 246-6 Deposit on private property prohibited.
§ 246-7 Maintenance of private property.
§ 246-8 Deposit in vacant lots prohibited.
§ 246-9 Responsibilities of owner or lessee.
§ 246-10 Receptacles for commercial premises.
§ 246-11 Enforcement.
§ 246-12 Penalties for offenses.
Chapter 246 Solid Waste
Brush, grass, weeds and rubbish — See Ch. 84.
[Adopted 7-31-1992 by L.L. No. 18-1992 (Ch. 29 of the 1971 Code)]
[Amended 10-4-2018 by L.L. No. 15-2018]
Any item, sample, device or material that is printed, written or copied, magazines, catalogs, flyers, circulars, pamphlets, newspapers, booklets or any other principal matter of reading, photography or publication regardless of its intention or purpose.
Trees, brush, leaves, lawn clippings and other items resulting from the cleanup and maintenance of the grounds of private property; garbage, refuse, handbills, and rubbish, as such are defined; and all other waste materials which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tend to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare or render the streets, private grounds or public places unsightly, including household waste and construction and demolition debris.
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designated or used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and includes any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps or vestibule belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling house, building or other structure.
Any area on or adjacent to a private premise that is visible from outside of the premises. This includes doorways, porches, decks, steps, stairs, stoops, flagging, curbstones, outdoor dining areas, parking lots, alleys and sidewalks. This area extends to the curb, curbline or road.
Nonputrescible solid wastes, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, including but not limited to papers, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, building materials and similar materials.
Every vehicle in, upon or which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk, quasi-public place or public property within the Village except in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection; provided, however, that said public receptacles shall not be used by persons for the deposit of domestic, commercial and industrial litter arising from the conduct of their daily activities.
[Amended 5-16-2014 by L.L. No. 6-2014; 10-4-2018 by L.L. No. 15-2018]
Notwithstanding the above, the owner or persons in control of private property may deposit leaves in the grassed area of the right-of-way and not in any paved portion of a street, road, lane or gutter for pickup by the Village from the second Monday in October through the second Friday in December
[Amended 12-19-2008 by L.L. No. 13-2008]
No person shall discard, throw, toss, place, scatter or stack or cause or allow any handbills to be discarded, thrown, tossed, placed, scattered or stacked within the Village of East Hampton, except as follows:
[Added 10-4-2018 by L.L. No. 15-2018]
Handbills may be distributed on public property only if they are personally and individually handed to members of the public who are willing to accept them.
Handbills may be made available for distribution on quasi-public property only when (i) a person at the adjacent private premises requests or agrees to properly display handbills; and (ii) the handbills are hand-delivered to a person of authority on the private property; and (iii) the handbills are secured in a way that prevents them from creating litter or becoming hazardous to the public.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any lake, pond, stream or any other body of water.
[Amended 9-18-2015 by L.L. No. 19-2015]
The owner or person in control of any private property shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the storage of litter in private receptacles for collection or the creation and maintenance of a home composting facility for the production of compost from natural material to be used on and about the private premises. All receptacles for garbage, litter, refuse or rubbish shall be covered at night with covers that are sufficiently secure to prevent their contents from blowing out of the receptacle.
The owner, agent, lessee, tenant, occupant or other person who manages or controls a building or lot shall be jointly and/or severally responsible for keeping the sidewalk, flagging and curbstone and the air shafts, backyards, courts, parking lots and alleys free from litter.
[Amended 3-18-2016 by L.L. No. 4-2016]
Any garbage, waste or rubbish placed outside commercial premises, visible to the public, shall be contained in a covered container sufficiently secure so as to prevent animals from gaining access to the contents thereof. Any container greater than 1.5 cubic yards shall be screened.
The Building Inspector of the Village of East Hampton or any police agency is hereby empowered and authorized to exercise such powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article.
Civil penalties shall be as follows:
For the first offense, $500 or twice the cost to the Village of clearing away the offending materials, whichever is greater.
For a second offense, $750 or twice the cost to the Village of clearing away the offending materials, whichever is greater.
For a third offense, $1,000 or twice the cost to the Village of clearing away the offending materials, whichever is greater.
A violation of the provisions of § 246-2A and § 246-3 of this chapter shall be punishable as follows:
[Amended 4-20-2015 by L.L. No. 8-2015]
Any person or persons, association, firm or corporation violating any of the other provisions of this article, as the same may be from time to time amended, shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of not more than $500 and shall be subject to the further civil penalties above.
[Added 4-20-2015 by L.L. No. 8-2015]