[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Sag Harbor as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-11-1931 by Ord. No. 1 (Ch. 1 of the 1968 Compilation)]
The definitions and provisions of this ordinance shall apply
to the construction, application and enforcement of every ordinance
of this Village, whether adopted now or hereafter, unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise.
Whenever in these ordinances the following terms are used, they
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Vehicles of the fire department, police vehicles, ambulances
and such emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service
corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police.
MAYOR
The Mayor or the Acting Mayor of the Incorporated Village
of Sag Harbor.
OPERATOR
Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
ORDINANCE
Any ordinance of the Incorporated Village of Sag Harbor duly
passed by the Board of Trustees of such Village, of which due public
notice shall have been given as required by law.
PARKING
The stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether attended or
unattended, upon a roadway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose
of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading or in obedience
to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
PERSON
Includes individuals, firms, partnerships, associations and
corporations.
POLICE OFFICER
Every officer of the Village Police Department or any officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
of traffic regulations.
STREET
Includes any street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway or
culvert and every class of public road, square and place.
U-TURN
Any turn or maneuver in which a vehicle proceeding along
a street changes its course of travel so as to proceed along the same
street in a direction opposite to that from which the turn or maneuver
was commenced.
[Added 9-2-1975 by L.L. No. 7-1975]
VILLAGE
The Incorporated Village of Sag Harbor.
Typographical and clerical errors shall be ignored where the
meaning is otherwise plain.
Ordinances shall be construed reasonably and liberally to make
effective the policy which was apparently intended by the Board of
Trustees and to further the good government of the Village and the
well-being of its inhabitants.
The doing of any act forbidden by any ordinance or by any order
lawfully made under any ordinance or the failing to do any act required
by an ordinance or by any order lawfully made under any ordinance
shall be a violation of the ordinance and shall constitute disorderly
conduct. It shall be equally a violation and shall constitute disorderly
conduct for any person to cause another to violate an ordinance or
for any person to attempt to violate an ordinance or to aid, assist,
counsel or advise another to do so.
Any violation of an ordinance or any part thereof of the Village
for which a penalty is not specifically provided shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $100 or by imprisonment
for not less than one day nor more than three months, plus, in either
case, the costs provided by law. In case of nonpayment of any fine
or costs at the time the same are assessed, the offender shall be
confined in the Village or county jail until such fine and costs are
satisfied as provided by law, not to exceed 90 days.
All licenses and permits shall be issued by the Clerk after
payment of the specified fee and approved by the Board of Trustees
if required by ordinance. All applications shall be made out on forms
furnished by the Clerk and verified under oath. All licenses and permits
may be revoked by the Board of Trustees and shall expire on the last
day of June next following their issuance. No deduction in the fee
shall be made when the license or permit is terminated, either by
revocation or by expiration, within less than a year after its issuance.
All licenses and permits shall be exhibited on demand of any citizen
and, if to carry on any business, shall be publicly displayed in the
place of business.
This ordinance and all other ordinances of this Village shall
take effect and be in force from and after their passage and publication
according to law, unless otherwise specified.
[Added 3-29-1977 by L.L. No. 1-1977]
If any provision of this Code or of any ordinance or local law
which forms a part hereof or which may hereafter be included herein
shall be duly adjudged illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, invalid
or void by a court of competent jurisdiction or if the application
of any such provision shall be so adjudged, such judgment shall not
be deemed to affect the remainder thereof nor the application of such
provision to facts, persons or circumstances other than those concerned
in the matter litigated.
[Adopted 3-8-2011 by L.L. No. 2-2011]
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the Village of Sag Harbor, as codified by General Code, and consisting of Chapters
1 through
300, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Sag Harbor," 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 Sag Harbor" 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 Sag Harbor, 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 §
1-12 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and permanent nature
of the Village of Sag Harbor 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 §
1-12 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 Sag Harbor 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 Sag Harbor 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 Sag Harbor.
D. Any agreement entered into or any franchise, license, right, easement
or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by the Village of Sag
Harbor.
E. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Sag Harbor 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 Sag Harbor or any portion thereof.
F. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Sag Harbor 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 Sag Harbor 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, agreement or obligation.
H. The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The annexation or dedication of property.
J. Any local law or ordinance relating to salaries and compensation.
K. Any local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. Any local law or ordinance relating to or establishing a pension
plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
M. Any local law or ordinance or portion of a local law or ordinance
establishing a specific fee amount for any license, permit or service
obtained from the Village.
N. Any local law adopted subsequent to October 12, 2010.
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 Sag Harbor 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
Sag Harbor by impressing thereon the Seal of the Village of Sag Harbor,
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 Sag Harbor" 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 Sag Harbor 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, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Village Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk,
upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Board of
Trustees. The Clerk may also arrange for procedures for the periodic
supplementation of the Code.
Any person who alters or tampers with the Code of the Village
of Sag Harbor in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Village of Sag Harbor 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.
A. In compiling and preparing the local laws, ordinances and resolutions for publication as the Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, 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 amendments and/or additions as set forth in Schedule
A attached hereto and made a part hereof 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.)
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article
II of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Village of Sag Harbor, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article
II, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§
1-10 to
1-22, inclusive.
This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with
the Secretary of State of the State of New York.