As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
HEALTH NUISANCE
Includes doing any act or failing to perform any duty whereby a condition
is created which may be dangerous or prejudicial to human life or health.
Whenever in any place or on any premises within the city a health nuisance
shall have been found and declared by the Health Officer or Building Department
Administrator to exist, and an order shall have been made by said Health Officer
or Building Department Administrator directing the owner, lessee, tenant or
occupant of such place or premises to abate said health nuisance, and an opportunity
to be heard shall have been given such owner, tenant, lessee or occupant,
such health nuisance shall be fully abated within the time and in the manner
specified in said order.
No person shall interfere with or obstruct the Health Officer or Building
Department Administrator, or any authorized representatives of said officers,
when in the performance of their official duties.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to permit or allow in
or upon any vacant lot or land any water to collect or lie stagnant in which
mosquito larvae breed or are likely to breed.
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, cinders or other material to settle upon any private
or public property of any nature in the City of Glen Cove whereby damage results
to any person or property.
[Amended 5-27-1997 by L.L. No. 2-1997]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be liable to a penalty set in accordance with Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II, General Penalty; provided, however, that if the person served with the notice as provided in this article corrects the condition within the time specified in the notice, or after appeal, no violation shall be deemed to have been committed.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
PREDICATE OFFENSE
A violation of any one of the following: Article 220 (controlled
substance offenses), Article 221 (offenses involving marijuana), Article 230
(prostitution offenses), or Article 263 (sexual performance by a child) of
the New York State Penal Law, as amended, or §§ 65, 65-a, 65-b,
82, 123, or 126 of the New York State Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, as amended,
or § 260.20 (unlawful dealing with a child) of the New York State
Penal Law, as amended.
PUBLIC NUISANCE
Any building or structure in the City of Glen Cove wherein at least
two predicate offenses have been alleged to have occurred by the Glen Cove
police, or by any peace officer acting pursuant to his or her special duties,
resulting in at least two predicate arrests within any twelve-month period,
but not including any case in which each of the predicate offenses has been
alleged to have occurred during any single twenty-four-hour period.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this article, for any person
or legal entity to be the owner, lessee or otherwise in control of a building
or structure which has become a public nuisance as defined herein.