The Village Board hereby declares the Village of Sag Harbor
to be a nuclear-free community. As a result of numerous public meetings
held on eastern Long Island, the Village Board finds that the residents
of the Village have demonstrated legitimate public safety concerns
with regard to the operation of the nuclear electric generating facilities
in the nearby State of Connecticut. Along with this existing threat,
Long Islanders did absorb large electric rates so that Shoreham Nuclear
Power Plant would be shut down, thus demonstrating further opposition
to nuclear activities. Finally, local opposition to the operation
of the high flux beam reactor (HFBR) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
resulted in a decision by the federal government not to restart this
nuclear reactor. Because of this consensus of opposition to nuclear
power facilities, the Village seeks to adopt a law that declares the
Village to be a nuclear-free community.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
COMPONENT OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON
Any device, radioactive or nonradioactive, specifically designed
to be installed in and to contribute to the operation of a nuclear
weapon.
NUCLEAR WEAPON
Any device, the purpose of which is use as a weapon, a weapon
prototype or a weapon test device, the intended detonation of which
results from the energy released by fission and/or fusion reactions
involving atomic nuclei. Nuclear weapon includes the weapon's
guidance and propulsion system and triggering mechanism, i.e., the
means of transporting, guiding, propelling, triggering or detonating
the weapon, provided that such means are destroyed or rendered useless
in the normal transporting, guiding, propelling, triggering or detonation
of the weapon.
PERSON
A natural person, as well as a corporation, institution or
other entity, but does not include the federal government or any agency
thereof.
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Any radioactive materials, or their radioactive by-products,
which are generated, refined or made radioactive by any government
agency or pursuant to federal or state government contract or license,
and including that which the federal government classifies as low-level
radioactive waste as of January 1, 1989, but which may be classified
as below regulatory concern after that date.
The Village shall post and maintain appropriate signs at recognized
entrances to the Village and in Village Hall, proclaiming the Village
of Sag Harbor as a nuclear-free community.