[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Kensington 11-20-1968 as Section 36.0126 and 36.0131 of the Code of Ordinances
(1968); amended in its entirety 4-8-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is the purpose of this chapter to ensure regular maintenance
and improvements to present structures, safeguard against blight and
preserve property values and community standards and to establish
minimum maintenance standards to safeguard life, limb, health, safety,
property and the public welfare in the best interest of the residents
of the Village of Kensington.
No owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of any property
in the village, and no contractor, foreman, artisan, laborer, gardener
or employee or workman engaged in work or other activity thereon,
and no operator of a truck or other equipment carting rubbish, garbage,
paper products, plaster, building wastes or other materials shall
permit such rubbish, garbage, paper products, plaster, building wastes
or other materials from such property or from such truck or other
equipment to be blown, carried or deposited or to fall upon any public
property or upon the property of another. It shall be the duty of
such owner, lessee, occupant or person in control of such property,
and of the contractor, foreman or person in charge of the work, and
of the operator of such truck or other equipment, to provide and maintain
suitable receptacles or containers (and appropriate covers on trucks
and equipment) for all such rubbish, garbage, paper products, plaster,
building wastes or other materials, and such rubbish, garbage, papers,
plaster, building wastes and other materials shall be deposited and
retained therein (and appropriately covered, in the case of open trucks
and equipment) until removed from the village or otherwise disposed
of in conformity with the provisions of the village ordinances.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit upon any public
property or upon the property of another any rubbish, paper products,
plaster, building wastes, grass, weeds, clippings, branches, trees
and other material without the prior consent of the owner or lessee
of such property and then only in conformity with the provisions of
the village ordinances, rules and regulations.
Yards and vacant lots shall be kept clean and free of physical
hazards, garbage, refuse, litter, debris, accumulation of brush, shrubs,
weeds, grass, stumps, roots and excessive growths.
[Amended 12-21-2016 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
Upon inspection by the Building Inspector or Village Police,
an appearance ticket shall be issued for a violation of the provisions
of this chapter.
Each person who violates any provision of this chapter shall,
for each and every week that said violation continues, be subject
to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for a period not
to exceed six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
