This article is enacted to enhance the beauty
and cleanliness of the streets, sidewalks, parks and other public
property of the Village of Ossining by enforcing certain regulations
and restrictions on the activities of animals.
No person owning, harboring, keeping, walking
or having the custody or control of a dog shall cause, permit, suffer
or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance
on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area,
park or any other public property. These restrictions shall likewise
apply to any private property unless such person shall have the express
written permission of the owner of said property.
The prohibition set forth in §
75-19 above shall not apply to those portions of a street lying between curblines and on that portion of the public property lying between the street and the sidewalk, which such portions may be utilized to curb a dog, subject however to the following conditions:
A. Any person who so curbs a dog shall immediately remove
all feces deposited by such dog in the following manner: Feces shall
be picked up with a scoop, shovel, broom, tong or other similar implement
and be deposited immediately thereafter in a container, plastic or
otherwise, and then subsequently deposited in a container used for
the disposal of refuse.
B. In no event shall any feces be deposited in sewers
or drains, whether storm or sanitary.
Any person who violates or who fails or refuses
to comply with any provision of this article shall be liable to a
penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $250, respectively for
each infraction of the restrictions of this article.
Any police officer or dog control officer of
the Village of Ossining is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce
this article.