[HISTORY: Adopted Liberty Village Board 12-16-1968. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
There is hereby adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Liberty for the purpose of establishing a Housing Code containing
minimum housing standards applicable to residential premises including
one- and two-story dwellings, multiple dwellings, mobile homes and
mobile home courts in the Village of Liberty, that certain code known
as the "Model Housing Code" from Volume 2 of the publication "Housing
Codes, the Key to Housing Conservation," published in 1960 as a result
of a demonstration project conducted by the New York State Division
of Housing and Community Renewal in cooperation with the Housing and
Home Finance Agency, save and except such portions as are hereafter
deleted, modified or amended; of which code not less than three copies
have been and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the Village
of Liberty and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully
as if set out at length herein; and from the date on which this ordinance
shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within
the limits of the Village of Liberty.
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief Officer
of the Village of Liberty Housing Authority, his assistant and inspectors.
As used in this ordinance and the code adopted thereby, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
The Village of Liberty Housing Authority.
The Village of Liberty.
The Chief Officer of the Village of Liberty Housing Authority
shall have the power to modify any of the provisions of the code hereby
adopted upon application in writing by the owner or lessee, or his
duly authorized agent, when there are practical difficulties in the
way of carrying out the strict letter of the code, provided that the
spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured and substantial
justice done. The particulars of such modification when granted or
allowed and the decision of the Chief Officer of the Village of Liberty
Housing Authority thereon shall be entered upon the records of the
department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
Whenever the Chief Officer of the Village of Liberty Housing
Authority shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a permit
applied for, or when it is claimed that the provisions of the code
do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of the code have
been miscontrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal
from the decision of the Chief Officer of the Village of Liberty Housing
Authority to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Liberty within
30 days from the date of the decision appealed.
Every person who shall fail to comply with a violation order
issued by the agency within the time limit stated thereon shall be
guilty of disorderly conduct and, upon conviction, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $25 or by imprisonment for not less than
five days nor more than 30 days, or both.
All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent
with the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted
are hereby repealed.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Liberty hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this ordinance
or of the code hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid,
it is the intent of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Liberty
that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent
of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared
invalid.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after
its approval as required by law.
