All existing building permits, special permits and subdivision
applications which have received preliminary approval prior to the
effective date of this local law shall continue in full force and
effect during the existence of this moratorium.
The moratorium imposed by this local law shall continue in effect
from the date it becomes effective until 12:00 midnight, December
31, 1974.
Upon application duly made within one year after the termination
of the moratorium established by this local law and any succeeding
moratoriums which may be imposed thereafter, the owners or leasees
of any lands within the Town of Orangetown previously lawfully occupied
as gasoline service and filling stations, which use has terminated
by operation of law heretofore or during the term of the moratorium,
shall be afforded priority in the issuance of permits under and pursuant
to the applicable provisions of the Code of the Town of Orangetown
for the installation and maintenance of gasoline service and filling
stations on such lands owned or leased by them. This section shall
not be construed to constitute any waiver or modification of the requirements
of any other provision of this Code.
If any part or provision of this local law or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is adjudged invalid by any court
of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its
operation to the part, provision or application directly involved
in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered
and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this
law or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances.
The Town Board hereby declares that it would have enacted the remainder
of the law even without such part, provision or application.
This local law shall take effect immediately.