Every owner or occupant of any house or other building, and every owner or person entitled to possession of any vacant lot, and any person having charge of any church or any public building in the Town of Hempstead, shall during the winter season or during the time snow shall continue on the ground, keep the sidewalk in front of such lot or house free from obstruction by snow or ice and icy conditions, and shall at all times keep such sidewalk in good and safe repair and maintain the same clean, free from filth, dirt, weeds or other obstructions or encumbrances.
[Added 9-28-1954]
It shall be the duty of all owners, occupants or persons charged with control of stores, shops and other commercial premises, including parking areas adjacent thereto, in the Town of Hempstead, to keep and maintain the sidewalks adjacent thereto and such parking areas free and clean of all paper, debris and other refuse of any nature whatsoever, and it shall be unlawful for any person to sweep into the gutters any paper, debris and refuse of any nature whatsoever; and it shall be the duty of all such owners, occupants or persons to provide, keep and maintain adequate receptacles for the deposit of paper and refuse and debris of a similar nature by customers, patrons and employees of the aforesaid shops, stores and other commercial enterprises; the said receptacles to be placed on the sidewalk at the front of the premises and affixed to the building in a manner to insure against their upset or removal by any unauthorized person or persons.
[Added 9-28-1954]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, drop, throw or otherwise dispose of paper, debris and refuse of any nature whatsoever upon the sidewalks, streets, parking areas or other public places in the Town of Hempstead.
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Editor's Note: See Also Ch. 128, Garbage and Rubbish, Article II, Littering.
A. 
No person, firm, association or corporation who is the owner, occupant or lessee of any premises abutting on any street, road, highway or parkway in the unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, shall place, keep, permit or suffer to be placed or kept on any sidewalk in front of, adjoining or adjacent to such premises any goods, wares, merchandise, boxes, barrels, display signs or material things of any kind or description or in any manner obstruct any such sidewalk or in any manner obstruct or interfere with the use of any such sidewalk, but nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent persons from placing goods, wares, merchandise or household furniture on the sidewalks temporarily while loading or unloading the same, provided that a minimum width of three feet, to be measured from the curbline, is preserved as an unobstructed pedestrian walkway. Said loading and unloading should be done without unnecessary delay, and such goods, wares or merchandise are not allowed or permitted to remain on such sidewalk for a longer period than one hour.
[Amended 12-17-1985 by L.L. No. 102-1985, effective 12-23-1985]
B. 
For the purpose of this section, the term "sidewalk" shall include all land lying between the curbline of the public highway and the building line of the premises abutting thereon which has been surfaced or improved with concrete or other paving material.
[Added 5-22-1956, effective 6-11-1956]