[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lynbrook as Ch. 16, Art. I, of the 1967 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 63.
Amusements — See Ch. 66.
Female exposure — See Ch. 121.
Firearms, fireworks and explosives — See Ch. 123.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 178.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 185.
Sunday activities — See Ch. 216.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 240.
Zoning — See Ch. 252.
[Amended 10-21-1996 by L.L. No. 7-1996]
Any person who commits any of the following acts shall have breached the peace and shall be guilty of the offense of disorderly conduct:
A. 
Offensive behavior. Uses or indulges in offensive, disorderly, threatening, abusive or insulting language, conduct or behavior.
B. 
Annoys, disturbs others. Acts in such manner as to unreasonably annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct or be offensive to others.
[Amended 8-13-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001]
C. 
Unlawful assembly.
(1) 
Congregates, stands or remains, in concert with two or more other persons on any public sidewalk, near any storefront, or in any retail shopping area, street, parking field or other area where members of the public are invited:
[Amended 8-23-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004]
(a) 
In such a manner as to deliberately or willfully interfere with, make inconvenient, or impede ordinary passage of one or more pedestrians thereat. Such interference, inconvenience or impeding will be presumed to be deliberate and willful where a police officer's order designed to restore free and unobstructed pedestrian travel is disregarded or disobeyed; or
(b) 
Acting in such a manner as to demonstrate an intent to unreasonably annoy, intimidate or disturb pedestrians or other persons and, in fact, does annoy, intimidate or disturb such pedestrians. Evidence of the physical reaction of the affected pedestrians or other persons shall be admissible to establish both:
[1] 
Intent to annoy, intimidate or disturb: and
[2] 
The fact that such person was annoyed, intimidated or disturbed.
(2) 
For purposes of this subsection, the following definitions will apply:
(a) 
"In concert with" means acting together by standing side-by-side, speaking together, moving or refusing to move together, or verbally expressing unison in their actions.
(b) 
"Retail shopping area" means an area inclusive of a distance of 200 feet from the public entrance to a retail store, restaurant, theater or other retail establishment.
D. 
Causes crowds. By his actions causes a crowd to collect, except where lawfully addressing such a crowd.
E. 
Shouts; noises. Shouts or otherwise makes unreasonable noise either outside or inside a building, to the annoyance or disturbance of three or more persons.
[Amended 8-15-1977 by L.L. No. 15-1977; 8-13-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001]
F. 
Interferes with others. Interferes with any person in any place by jostling against such person or unnecessarily crowding him or by placing a hand in the proximity of such person's pocket, pocketbook or handbag.
G. 
Solicits alms. Stations himself on the public streets or follows pedestrians for the purpose of soliciting alms, or who solicits alms on the public streets unlawfully.
H. 
Lewd conduct. Frequents or loiters about any public place soliciting men for the purpose of committing a crime against nature or other lewdness.
I. 
Disturbances in public conveyances. Causes a disturbance in any railroad car, omnibus or other public conveyance by running through it, climbing through windows or upon the seats or otherwise unreasonably annoying passengers or employees therein.
[Amended 8-13-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001]
J. 
Annoys pedestrians. Stands on sidewalks or street corners and makes insulting remarks to or about passing pedestrians or otherwise unreasonably annoys such pedestrians.
[Amended 8-13-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001]
K. 
Indecent or obscene acts or gestures. Does any lewd, wanton, indecent, immodest, obscene or filthy act, or is guilty of any lewd, wanton, indecent, immodest, obscene or filthy gesture or conduct in any street, avenue or public place in the Village of Lynbrook.
L. 
Indecent or obscene pictures, marks, etc. Exposes, displays, posts up exhibits, paints, marks or places, or causes or permits to be exhibited, painted, printed, marked or placed, any placard, poster, bill, emblem or figure upon any building, billboard, wall, fence, tree or other surface on any street or public place, or which shall be visible from any street or public place in the Village, which shall be of lewd, indecent, immodest, immoral, vulgar or suggestive character or which shall be calculated to debauch the public or shock the sense of decency or propriety.
A. 
Generally. No person shall injure, mutilate or destroy any property owned, operated or maintained by the Village.
B. 
Structures, contents and equipment. No person shall injure, mutilate or destroy any structure or any furniture or equipment of any nature whatsoever in any building owned, operated or under the control of the Village or any equipment, including automobiles, motor trucks, motor bicycles or any other vehicle owned, maintained or operated by the Village.
[Amended 8-15-1977 by L.L. No. 15-1977[1]; 12-1-1980 by L.L. No. 18-1980]
A. 
No person shall loiter in or around public buildings or obstruct corridors, stairways or doorways, so as to prevent free access by members of the public, officers or employees. No person shall, by his or her presence or by means either alone or in consort with others, interfere with or interrupt the conduct of business in the offices located in any such buildings.
B. 
No person shall loiter in or upon any public sidewalk, street, public building or place or obstruct the use thereof so as to prevent free and reasonable access by other members of the public or prevent the exercise of duties by public officers or employees.
C. 
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C, prohibiting loitering in a place or manner that causes alarm to persons in the vicinity, was repealed 8-23-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004.
D. 
No person shall loiter or remain in a school building or in or about school grounds, not having any reason or relationship involving custody of or responsibility for a pupil or student or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there, and not having written permission from anyone authorized to grant the same.
[Added 10-5-1981 by L.L. No. 11-1981]
E. 
Any violation of any provision of this section shall be a violation under this Code punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[Amended 10-5-1981 by L.L. No. 11-1981]
[1]
Editor's Note: Local Law No. 15-1977 also provided for the repeal of Sections 16-3 and 16-5 of the 1967 Code of Ordinances.
[Amended 8-15-1977 by L.L. No. 15-1977]
No tent, camp cottage, house car, trailer or boat shall be used or occupied in the Village by any person as a dwelling place, nor shall any tent camp or tourist camp be established; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to temporary occupancy of tents, house cars or trailers or similar facilities placed upon the sites of building operations for the use and convenience of construction foremen, watchmen and similar persons and removed when such operations have been completed.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the playing or throwing of balls on the streets or sidewalks of the Village, and it shall be unlawful for any person upon such streets or sidewalks to throw any stone, snowball or other missile.
A. 
Generally. The owner or lessee of property shall maintain and keep clear, open and unencumbered all front, side and rear yards as required under the zoning regulations[1] of the Village as the required setbacks of properties, except driveways for passenger vehicles in residential zones and the parking of passenger vehicles thereon.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 252, Zoning.
B. 
Vehicular parking and storage. It shall be unlawful to park or store vehicles at any time on front lawns or rear and side yards of buildings, except in garages or driveways leading to garages. Where no garage is available in Residence A or B Zones, parking of vehicles shall be parallel to one side of the building.
[Amended 8-15-1977 by L.L. No. 15-1977]
C. 
No person shall operate any power lawn mower or other power gardening or landscaping equipment (e.g., equipment that requires electricity, gasoline or other fuel to operate) on Sundays between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m., or any time between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays.
[Added 1-24-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994; amended 11-17-2014 by L.L. No. 21-2014]
D. 
A contractor or person engaged in a construction trade is prohibited from the performance of any work on a job or a project on Monday through Friday before 8:00 a.m. and after 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday before 9:00 a.m. and after 7:00 p.m.
[Added 9-18-2006 by L.L. No. 12-2006]
E. 
No contractor or person engaged in a construction trade may perform any work on a Sunday.
[Added 9-18-2006 by L.L. No. 12-2006]
F. 
Notwithstanding the prohibitions of Subsections D and E herein, emergency repair work is permitted at any time where the safety of persons or the protection of property requires the performance of such work.
[Added 9-18-2006 by L.L. No. 12-2006]