This chapter is adopted for the purpose of protecting,
preserving and assuring the health, welfare, safety and morals of
the residents and inhabitants of the Town of Stanford and sojourners
therein, as well as preventing riots, disorderly crowds and/or assemblies
therein, unsafe, unsanitary or other conditions leading to creating,
causing, inciting or making possible a threat to the health, welfare
and safety of the Town, its orderly administration and control by
duly elected, acting or authorized officers, agents and/or employees
and the prevention of the spread of disease and the creation of unhealthy
conditions, the violation of sanitary requirements, the elimination
of excessive crowds, traffic congestion and/or other such hazards
to the public safety and welfare and the preservation of the peace
in said Town, its residents, inhabitants, property owners, both public
and private and sojourners therein, together with the protection of
public property in said Town and the general health, welfare, safety
and morals of the towns surrounding, adjacent or near to the Town
of Stanford, in the County of Dutchess and the state, county and Town
roads and/or highways leading thereto and therefrom.
No public or private assembly, group, gathering,
crowd or congregation of people within the confines of the Town of
Stanford shall be permitted or allowed in excess of 3,000 in number
upon any property, land or parcel of land, whether improved or not
and whether contiguous or not, without a permit therefor being obtained
as hereinafter provided.
Any person, firm, partnership, association or
corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 for each violation
or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year,
or by both fine and imprisonment.