[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Wesley Hills 12-11-1984 by L.L. No. 18-1984. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
It is the intent of this chapter to prohibit unsightly and hazardous
materials from being dumped or thrown on private or public property
and to prevent the marring or defacement of said properties.
No person shall maliciously, wantonly, negligently or otherwise
remove or mar, cut, mark or otherwise injure real property or improvements
thereto belonging to the Village of Wesley Hills or to any person
within the Village.
No person shall throw, drop or place, or permit to be deposited
or scattered, upon any sidewalk, alley, street, bridge, or public
road or upon any private property in the Village of Wesley Hills any
waste, litter, rubbish, fill, or other material of any kind, including
the abandoning of vehicles or the stripping and junking of any vehicles.
No person shall fasten in any way any show card, poster or other
advertising device upon any public or private property in the Village
of Wesley Hills, unless legally authorized to do so.
No person shall trespass upon any public or private property
within the Village of Wesley Hills.
No person shall tamper with, injure, deface, destroy, or remove
any sign, notice, marker, fire alarm box, fire hydrant, topographical
survey monument, or any other personal property belonging to, erected,
or placed by the Village of Wesley Hills or any other municipal corporation.
Commission of the offenses described in any of the sections
of this chapter upon any tomb, monument, grave, bench, tombstone,
footstone, headstone, post, marker or other monument for or of the
dead, erected or being in any cemetery within the Village of Wesley
Hills, or upon the lands, grounds or real property of any cemetery
located within the Village of Wesley Hills, shall be subject to prosecution
in accordance with this chapter.
[Amended 11-7-1994 by L.L. No. 3-1994]
This chapter shall be enforced by Police Department personnel
or the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Code Inspector of the Village of Wesley
Hills, each of whom is hereby authorized and empowered to issue an
appearance ticket returnable in the Justice Court of the Village of
Wesley Hills for any violation of any provision of this chapter.
A.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty
of a violation punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 15 days, or both. Each day that such violation
continues shall constitute a separate and distinct violation.
B.
In addition to the above provided penalties and punishment, the Board
of Trustees may also maintain an action in any court of competent
jurisdiction to compel compliance with this chapter by injunction
or other action.
