It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to deposit, leave and/or maintain, or to permit others to deposit, leave and/or maintain on any vacant lot or outside of any building or dwelling under his, her or its control, in a place accessible to children an icebox, refrigerator or other container of any kind having an airtight door, lid, snaplock or other locking device which may not be released from the inside of said icebox, refrigerator or container, unless the door, lid, snaplock or other locking device has first been removed from said icebox, refrigerator or other airtight container.
[Adopted 6-3-1969 as Ch. 5 of the 1969 Code of the Town of Huntington; amended in its entirety 6-4-2002 by L.L. No. 18-2002]
It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to leave and/or maintain a well, cesspool or cistern in an open, or dangerous, or hazardous condition. All such wells, cesspools or cisterns shall be secured, sealed and/or safeguarded by suitable means so as to prevent access or entrance thereto.
It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to leave and/or maintain a recharge basin or sump in an open, or dangerous, or hazardous condition on private property unless the same is surrounded by protective fencing at least six feet in height with all gate openings securely locked and with no openings beneath the fence or gate large enough to permit access.
It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to leave and/or maintain a catch basin, leaching pool, manhole or similar structure in an open, or dangerous, or hazardous condition. All such structures shall be properly covered with a concrete or metal cover of sufficient size and weight so as to effectively prevent access and if covered, it shall be placed, installed and/or maintained in a safe and/or suitable manner so as to avoid injury.
[Added 7-21-2020 by L.L. No. 19-2020; amended 11-18-2021 by L.L. No. 64-2021]
It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to maintain a swimming pool without a fence or barrier that complies with § 87-81 of this Code, to maintain a swimming pool without a self-closing and self-latching gate with a childproof lock, or to leave a swimming pool gate unlocked when the pool is unattended.
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Editor's Note: Former § 156-5, Penalties for offenses, was redesignated as § 156-11 by L.L. No. 16-2007, adopted 5-8-2007. This local law also redesignated former §§ 156-6 through 156-13 as §§ 156-12 through 156-20. Former § 156-9, Removal of hazard or nuisance, and § 156-10, Liability for costs; tax lien, were repealed 7-1-2003 by L.L. No. 26-2003.
[Amended 11-6-2019 by L.L. No. 56-2019; 11-18-2021 by L.L. No. 64-2021; 4-11-2024 by L.L. No. 22-2024]
Any person or business entity who commits or permits any acts in violation of any provision of this article shall be deemed to have committed an offense and shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred ($500) dollars and not more than five thousand ($5,000) dollars for a conviction of a first offense; upon the conviction of a second offense, where the offense was committed within five (5) years of the first offense, a fine of not less than one thousand ($1,000) dollars and not more than ten thousand ($10,000) dollars; and upon conviction of a third or subsequent offense, where the offense was committed within five (5) years of the first offense, a fine of not less than one thousand five hundred ($1,500) dollars and not more than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars. Each day such violation continues or is permitted to exist following notification by the Town or service of a notice of violation, appearance ticket, or summons shall constitute a separate offense, punishable in like manner. Any person or entity found by the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication to have violated any provision of this article shall likewise be subject to a monetary penalty in an amount within the range of fines authorized herein for any offense or continuing offense.