[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Cornwall-on-Hudson 3-22-1967 as Ch. 43 of the 1967 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No act or amusement, such as playing ball, or shinny, the discharge
of firearms or fireworks or throwing sticks, stones or quoits, or
any act, amusement or practice, by which a person or property is endangered
will be permitted in any public place or in the vicinity of any public
building in said village, under a penalty of $10.
No person or persons shall publicly expose himself or themselves
naked or publicly bathe or make any indecent exposure of person in
any part of said village or the waters therein, under a penalty of
$10.
No person shall in any way deface, injure, disturb or destroy
any public lamppost, fixture or lantern or meddle with, open, light
or extinguish (except persons whose duty it shall be to light and
extinguish the same) any lamp along or in any street or sidewalk in
said village, under a penalty of $10.
No person shall use any hand sled or vehicle without horse for
the amusement of sliding or riding downhill in or upon any street
in said village, without prior permission from the Mayor or Trustees,
under a penalty of $1.
No person or persons shall set up, maintain or keep any gambling
house, faro bank, house of assignation, brothel or house of debauchery
in said village, under a penalty of $25, and $10 for each day such
house shall remain open after notice to close the same.
The unnecessary congregation of two or more persons on the sidewalks
or corners of the streets is forbidden and is hereby declared unlawful
and shall be an offense punishable by a fine of $10 for the first
offense and by a fine not to exceed $100 for the second offense.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make any noise or engage
in riotous conduct to disturb the quiet and peace of the village or
of any meeting or assembly therein; to publicly use any profane, vulgar
or obscene language or conduct in any street or public place in said
village; to maliciously break, mar, injure, remove or deface any public
building, fence, awning, sign, signboard, tree, shrubbery or other
ornamental thing along or in any street or sidewalk or structure in
said village; to remove from or pile up, before any door or on any
sidewalk or street, boxes, chests or any thing for the purpose of
annoyance or mischief; to willfully tear down, destroy or mutilate
any public notice or handbill lawfully posted up in said village;
to incite or induce dogs to fight; to resist any officer in the performance
of his duty or to assault such officer while in the discharge of his
duty or to be guilty of insubordination or disorderly conduct at any
fire in said village; or to attempt in any way to obstruct or prevent
the execution of the orders of the Trustees or officers of the Fire
Department at any fire in said village; and any persons guilty of
any violation of this section or of the acts herein specified are
declared to be disorderly persons and, upon conviction, shall forfeit
and pay a penalty not to exceed $50 for each and every offense, in
the discretion of the Magistrate before whom they are tried.
