No owner, lessee or occupant of real property
shall cause or permit any dried grass, weeds, brush, wastepaper, rags,
boxes, barrels or other flammable or combustible waste material to
accumulate or remain on the premises under his control or care.
The Fire Inspector shall serve a notice in writing,
either personally or by mail, on any owner, lessee or occupant of
real property in the Village to remove or destroy any accumulations
of such grass, weeds, brush and all other forms of refuse or rubbish
thereon likely to cause or spread fires.
A person so served, who for five days after
service shall neglect or fail to comply with such notice, shall be
deemed to have violated this chapter.
If, after five days from the service of such
notice, the owner, lessee or occupant of the real property upon which
such wastepaper, rags, boxes, barrels, grass, weeds and other flammable
or potentially flammable or combustible waste materials have accumulated
shall not have complied with the mandate of such order, the Incorporated
Village of Patchogue may, through its employees or contractor, enter
upon such premises and remove the accumulation of such materials.
The Board of Trustees, as the Committee on Streets,
shall certify to the Treasurer the cost of such removal against the
owner of the property; and upon the receipt of the certification of
such cost, the Treasurer shall assess and enter as a lien against
such property the certified cost thereof and shall within 10 days
after the entry of such assessment of liens and notice thereof, demand
payment thereof from the person, firm or corporation appearing on
the assessment roll as the owner thereof. If such lien shall not be
paid within 40 days after the entry thereof, interest shall be payable
thereon from the date of entry of such lien at the rate of 1% per
month or fraction thereof.
All payments received by the Treasurer for and
on account of the cost of cleaning vacant lots in the incorporated
limits of the Village of Patchogue, in accordance with the foregoing
provisions of this chapter, shall be credited to the Cleaning of Vacant
Lots Account.
