[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Wappingers Falls as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 2-12-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the Village of Wappingers Falls, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 151, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls," hereafter termed the "Code."  Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions contained in the "Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls" to any other local law, ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such local law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws, ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law are intended as a continuation of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law, ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Wappingers Falls, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the Village of Wappingers Falls in force on the date of the adoption of this local law and not contained in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this local law.
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in § 1-3 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. 
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative provision of the Village of Wappingers Falls prior to the effective date of this local law or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
B. 
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this local law in violation of any legislative provision of the Village of Wappingers Falls or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
C. 
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective date of this local law, brought pursuant to any legislative provision of the Village of Wappingers Falls.
D. 
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by the Village of Wappingers Falls.
E. 
Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Wappingers Falls providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, park or other public place within the Village of Wappingers Falls or any portion thereof.
F. 
Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Wappingers Falls appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of the Village of Wappingers Falls or other instruments or evidence of the village's indebtedness.
G. 
Local laws or ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property, or any lawful contract or obligation.
H. 
The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. 
The annexation or dedication of property.
J. 
Any legislation relating to salaries.
K. 
Any local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. 
Any legislation adopted subsequent to September 13, 1995.
M. 
Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
N. 
Any enactment of the village setting or adjusting salaries and compensation of village employees and/or officers.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter or part of this local law or of any local law, ordinance or resolution included in this Code now or through  supplementation shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Wappingers Falls and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this local law; and, if this local law shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified by the Village Clerk of the Village of Wappingers Falls by impressing thereon the Seal of the Village of Wappingers Falls, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said Village Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect. The enactment and publication of this local law, coupled with the availability of a copy of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls" or any new local laws or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Board of Trustees to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing contained in this local law shall affect the status of any local law, ordinance or resolution contained herein, and such local laws, ordinances or resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the Board of Trustees deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the Village Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls required to be filed in the office of the Village Clerk for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all local laws and resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees subsequent to the enactment of this local law in such form as to indicate the intention of said Board to be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes, local laws or resolutions until such changes, local laws or resolutions are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the Village Clerk of the Village of Wappingers Falls upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Board of Trustees, which Board may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Village Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Village of Wappingers Falls to be misrepresented thereby or who violates any other provision of this local law shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for a term of not more than 15 days, or both.
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Editor’s Note: L.L. No. 8-2008, adopted 12-8-2008, created a uniform section for the application of penalties occurring when any ordinance, resolution or act of the Village is violated. See Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II, General Penalty.
A. 
In compiling and preparing the local laws, ordinances and resolutions for publication as the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions have been made, except as provided for in Subsection B hereof. In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of the Board of Trustees that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the local laws, ordinances and resolutions had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. 
In addition, the following amendments and/or additions are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this local law. (Chapter and section number references are to the local laws, ordinances and resolutions as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-11B, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted or deleted by this local law are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article I. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: "Amended (added, deleted) 2-12-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997." A complete description of all changes is on file in the village offices.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article I of Chapter 1 of the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article I, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§ 1-1 to 1-13, inclusive.
This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State of the State of New York.
[Adopted 12-10-2008 by L.L. No. 8-2008]
A. 
Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance or resolution of the Village of Wappingers Falls any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever in such Code, ordinance or resolution the doing of an act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any ordinance or resolution shall constitute a violation and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days, or both. Each day any violation of any provision of this Code or any such ordinance or resolution shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
[Amended 7-31-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013]
B. 
In addition to the penalty hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code or any such ordinance or resolution shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by the Village of Wappingers Falls, abated as provided by law, and each such day that such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense.
Whenever a violation of this Code or any ordinance or resolution of the Village of Wappingers Falls involves the use, occupancy, construction or development of real property, then, in that event, for any individual, partnership or corporation which does not pay a fine imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction by December 31 of the year said fine or penalty was imposed, the amount of the fine shall be a lien on the real property owned by said individual, partnership or corporation for the following year and may be assessed against the same on the Village tax roll.
This article shall not apply to any violation of the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code or any Village ordinance or resolution passed pursuant thereto.
A. 
This article shall not affect § 10-6, § 55-11, § 64-17C and D(1), (2) and (3), § 87-4, § 106-7, § 132-18, § 143, § 146-17 or § 148-32 of the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls. Any such fine or punishment code shall be pursuant to the language of the respective sections.
[Amended 7-31-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013]
B. 
Section 128-11 of the Code of the Village of Wappingers Falls shall be amended by this article only to the extent that a minimum fine of $100 shall be mandated. No other portion of § 128-11 shall be affected by this article, and it shall remain in full force and effect.
In all cases where the same offense may be punishable or shall be created by different causes or sections of the laws of the Village of Wappingers Falls, the prosecuting officer may elect under which to proceed; but no more than one recovery shall be had against the same person for the same offense.