[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of Trustees of the Village
of Pleasantville 12-14-1981 by L.L. No. 5-1981
as Ch. 65, Art. VI, of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the emission of thick or
dense smoke, cinders, soot, dust, noxious gases, offensive odors, trade wastes
and other pollutions within the corporate limits of the Village of Pleasantville.
No person shall allow, suffer or cause to be permitted the discharge
or escape into the open air of such quantities of smoke, cinders, soot, dust,
noxious gases, offensive odors, trade wastes and other pollutions in such
a manner as to cause injury or nuisance to any person or persons or to endanger
the health or safety of any such person or persons or in such manner as to
cause injury or damage to business or property, real or personal, or cause
or permit soot, ash, dust, cinder or other material to settle upon any private
or public property of any nature in the Village of Pleasantville whereby damage
results to any person or property.
This chapter shall in no manner apply to chimneys of buildings used
exclusively for residential purposes.
Except as otherwise provided in the Penal Law, each violation of any
provision of this chapter shall constitute a violation pursuant to the Penal
Law, punishable by a maximum fine of $500 or by imprisonment for not more
than 15 days, or both.
