[Adopted 12-23-1971 (Ch. 124 of the 1987 Code)]
By the adoption of this article, the Town Board of the Town
of North Castle, New York, declares that indiscriminate landfill operations,
littering and dumping of refuse, garbage, keeping of junk or junked
automobiles or automobiles which are not in a running condition; structures,
both residential and nonresidential and commercial and industrial,
and vacant areas which are becoming slums or blighted because of substandard
unsanitary and deteriorating conditions are injurious to the public
safety, health and welfare of the people of the Town of North Castle
and further can constitute a hazard to property and persons and constitute
a public nuisance.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BUILDING
Includes a structure wholly or partially enclosed within
exterior walls or within exterior or party walls and a roof affording
shelter to persons, animals or property.
FILLING or LANDFILL
The placing of soil, earth, sand, gravel or any other material
determined to be clean fill by the Town Engineer in or upon any lands
within the Town of North Castle.
GARBAGE
Includes all putrescible animal or vegetable waste resulting
from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
INFESTATION
Includes the presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other
pests.
JUNKED VEHICLE
Includes any vehicle, including a trailer, which is without
a currently valid license plate or plates and is in either a wrecked,
discarded, dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperative or abandoned
condition.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material, including building rubble and construction material,
which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create
a danger to public health, safety and welfare or tends to create blight.
LOT
Includes a portion or parcel of land considered as a unit,
vacant or dedicated to a certain use, or occupied by a building or
group or buildings that are united by a common interest or use, and
customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.
NUISANCE
Shall be held to embrace whatever is dangerous to human life
or detrimental to health or welfare.
PERSON
An individual, an association, a partnership or a corporation.
REFUSE
Includes all cardboard, plastic, metal or glass food containers,
wastepaper, rags, sweepings, small pieces of wood, excelsior, rubber,
leather and similar waste material that ordinarily accumulates around
a home, business or industry.
TOWN
The Town of North Castle.
YARD
An open space on the same lot which contains a building and
is located between the building line and lot line on which the particular
building line faces.
This article shall apply to all premises within the Town of
North Castle, including but not limited to vacant lots, residential,
commercial or mixed lots or buildings, streets, whether public or
private, and public lands used for any purpose whatsoever.
This article shall be known and designated as the "North Castle
Landfill, Dumping and Littering Ordinance."
[Adopted 10-22-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014 (Ch. 161 of the 1987 Code)]
The Town Board of the Town of North Castle hereby determines
that it is necessary for the health, safety, appearance and general
welfare of the residents of the Town of North Castle to provide a
method whereby vacant lots, improved properties and public lands within
the Town are clean, properly maintained and free from vermin, nuisances,
hazards, debris and litter. The Town Board acknowledges the existence
of the Property Maintenance Code of New York State (2010), as amended,
and that its administration and enforcement is the responsibility
of the Building Inspector or his representative. The provisions of
said code are incorporated herein and made a part hereof.