The following conditions are hereby declared to be nuisances, and the
maintenance of such nuisances is hereby prohibited within the Incorporated
Village of Bellerose:
A. Whatever is dangerous to human life or health.
B. Whatever building or structure or part or cellar thereof
is overcrowded or not provided with adequate means of egress or is not sufficiently
supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, lighted or cleaned.
C. Whatever renders soil, air, water or food impure or unwholesome.
D. Slaughterhouses, privies, hogpens, accumulations of dung
or manure, carcasses, swill, brine, urine of animals or any stinking, noxious,
offensive, foul or filthy liquids or other matters or conditions.
E. Discarded material of any kind or rubbish or refuse that
is maintained beyond normally scheduled garbage removal.
F. Accumulations of brush, tree stumps or other vegetative
wastes or rubble or construction wastes that are maintained beyond normally
scheduled garbage removal.
G. Growths of weeds or other noxious vegetation or any growths
of grass above six inches in height.
H. Ponds or pools of stagnant water.
I. Pits, holes, excavations, uncovered wells or other declivities
of land which are unsightly or are liable to cause injury to persons falling
therein or therefrom.
J. Barbed-wire or electrified fences or such fences as are
otherwise forbidden by the provisions of the Code of the Incorporated Village
of Bellerose.
K. Accumulations of junk, old metals or machinery, rags
or newspapers or storage in the open of abandoned, inoperable or partially
or completely dismantled motor vehicles.
L. On private property located within the Residence District of the Village, as that term is defined in §
210-4 of the Code, the maintenance of any container actually accommodating or designed to accommodate more than one cubic yard of rubbish, refuse or discarded material of any kind or the maintenance, within said Residence District on private property, of any bulk storage containers, as that term is defined by §
135-2 of the Village Code, for any period of time whatsoever.
[Added 1-9-1984 by L.L. No. 2-1984]
In case of an alleged violation of any provision of §
147-1, the owner or lessee of property whereon the violation occurs is deemed to consent to the right of entry by the Village officials for the sole purpose of inspecting or correcting such violation.
The imposition of any penalty for any offense committed against the
provisions of this chapter shall not affect the power of the Board of Trustees
to require the abatement of the nuisances enumerated herein within such time
as the Board of Trustees shall fix, nor shall it prevent, in the event of
neglect or refusal by any person to comply with any or all of the provisions
of such an order, entry by the Board of Trustees or its designees upon the
premises affected by such nuisances, the removal of such nuisances by the
Village or its agents and the assessment of all costs of such removal, including
legal fees, against the real property affected.
[Added 3-22-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
A. No person or entity shall store, leave or utilize a portable
basketball hoop in or upon a street, sidewalk, right-of-way, or front yard.
B. No basketball hoop shall be utilized between the hours
of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be judged a disorderly person and shall be
punishable by a fine not to exceed $250, and each and every day during which
such violation shall exist shall constitute a separate offense, punishable
as such.