[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Ardsley 6-17-74 by L.L. No. 2-1974. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Environmental quality review — See Ch. 102.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Solid, liquid or gaseous combustible materials.
Any structure or furnace in which combustion takes place
and refuse is used as fuel, along or in conjunction with fossil fuel.
All waste material, including but not limited to garbage,
rubbish, incinerator residue, street cleanings, dead animals and offal.
The chart published and described in the United States Bureau
of Mines Information Circular 7718, or which estimate the light-obscuring
density of smoke. The Micro Ringelmann Chart, a photographically reproduced
reproduction approximately 1/18 the size of the "Ringelmann Chart"
is acceptable as an equivalent standard.
Solid or liquid waste material, including but not limited
to paper and paper products, rags, trees or leaves, needles or branches
therefrom, vines, lawn and garden debris, chemicals, paint, grease,
sludges, oils and other petroleum products, wood, sawdust, demolition
materials, tires and automobiles or automobile parts.
An air contaminant consisting of small gas-borne particles
emitted by an air contamination source in sufficient numbers to be
observable.
No person shall construct, install, use or cause
to be used any incinerator which emits smoke, the shade or appearance
of which is equal to or greater than:
A.
Number 1 on the Ringelmann Chart, or equivalent standard
acceptable to the Environmental Conservation Commissioner of the State
of New York, for a period of three or more minutes during any continuous
sixty-minute period; or
B.
Number 2 on the Ringelmann Chart, or equivalent standard
acceptable to the Environmental Conservation Commissioner of the State
of New York, for any time period.
A.
No incinerator, built or installed after January 26,
1967, regardless of size, shall emit smoke of an opacity denser than
20% or No. 1 of the Ringelmann Chart or equivalent, under normal operating
conditions.
B.
No incinerator built or installed prior to January
26, 1967, regardless of the size, shall be operated so as to emit
smoke of an opacity denser than 40% or No. 2 of the Ringelmann Chart
or equivalent, under normal operating conditions.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter,
no person shall permit the emission of air contaminants in quantities
which alone or in combination with emissions from other air contamination
sources would contravene any established ambient air quality standard
and/or cause air pollution.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of
Buildings and the Building Inspector of the Village of Ardsley to
implement the legislative intentions set forth in this chapter. A
violation of this chapter shall be punishable by fine not to exceed
$250 or 15 days in jail.
This chapter is not intended and shall not be
deemed to impair the powers of any other public corporation or to
supersede any application of New York State laws.
