[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Geddes 4-8-1974 as Ch. 41 of the 1974 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
No person shall make or assist in making any
improper noise or any disturbance or loud noises or commit any breach
of peace in the streets of the town or elsewhere in the town, and
no persons shall collect in bodies or crowds in the streets or on
the sidewalks for any unlawful purpose or for any purpose to the annoyance
or disturbance of citizens.
No person shall disturb any congregation or
assembly of people met for religious worship by making a noise or
by rude or indecent behavior or profane discourse, within a place
of worship or so near the same as to disturb the order and solemnity
of the meeting.
No person shall use any scandalous or lewd language
to any other person or of or concerning any person in the hearing
of others, or shall make any immodest, lewd or otherwise indecent
sign or commit any other immodest, lewd or indecent act in the presence
of any other person.
No person shall conduct himself in a boisterous,
rude, insulting or otherwise disorderly manner, by either words or
acts, toward any other person with the intent to abuse or annoy such
person, or so as to annoy the citizens of the town or any portion
thereof and disturb the good order and quiet of the same.
No person shall solicit alms in the town for
any purpose whatever without permission of the Supervisor.
No person shall carry about his or her person
any dirk, bowie knife, sword or spear, cane pistol, revolver, jimmy,
sling shot, brass knuckles, razor or any weapon, instrument or thing
likely to produce grievous bodily harm. No person shall have or carry
in or upon the public streets and public places of the town any deadly
or dangerous weapon, instrument or thing with intent to do bodily
harm therewith to any person.
No person shall ring any gong or bell, except
church or school bell, or cry any auction in any street, lane or alley
or upon any sidewalk, or upon any piazza, step or platform immediately
adjoining any sidewalk, lane or alley in the town; no tenant or occupant
of any dwelling shall suffer any gong or bell to be rung as a call
or signal upon any street, lane or alley adjoining any sidewalk in
said town.
No person shall play ball, beat, knock or drive
any ball or fly any kite in any public street or square in said town,
or coast or slide down any sidewalk or street upon any sled, sleigh
or board without permission of the Town Board.
No person shall leave his wife and children
a burden on the public or neglect to support his wife and children.
No person shall be in a state of intoxication
in any highway, street, alley or public place in the city, or in any
private house or place to the annoyance of any person.
No person shall carry advertising boards or
placards through the streets of the town without permission from the
Supervisor or Town Board.
No person shall fling or throw any stone, pebble,
ice or snowball or any hard or hurtful substance or thing by hand
or foot or by any air gun or other instrument within the bounds of
the town.
No person, society or organization of any name
or nature shall assemble, congregate, parade or march in or through
any of the streets of the town, with or without banners, transparencies
or other devices, without permission of the Supervisor or the Town
Board.[1]
A.
Expectorating upon the floors of public buildings,
street cars, public conveyances and in any public place within the
town limits is hereby forbidden.
No person shall use, open or draw water from
or in any manner interfere with any hydrant in the Town of Geddes
without permission in writing from the water commissioners of said
water district or from the association operating said hydrant or,
in the event said line is operated by the Village of Solvay, then
and in that event from the Mayor of said Village of Solvay.
No person shall extinguish, destroy or remove
any signal light placed in or adjacent to any street, park or alley
or public grounds of the town as a warning of danger.
No person shall break, injure, deface or molest
any lamp, lamppost, globe burner or any part of a fixture belonging
to any gas or oil lamp or electric light belonging to the town or
to any company, person or corporation, or shall, without authority,
extinguish any street light in any street, lane, alley, public square
or park within the town, or fasten any placard, handbill, poster or
notice, or sign of any kind, or any article of goods or merchandise
upon or against or in any manner connect the same with any lamp or
lamppost, electric light or telephone pole in the town or make any
other use of such lamp or lamppost or pole at any time.
No person shall remove, mutilate, disturb, cover
or in any way interfere with or render inaccessible any land monument
or cover thereto within the limits of the town without the permission
of the Town Engineer or Supervisor in writing.
On and after January 1, 1940, it shall be unlawful
to sell or expose for sale or buy or exchange or give away or have
in possession any balloon made or intended to contain fire for purpose
of ascension, or send or cause to ascend any balloon containing in
or about it any fire, but this section shall not apply to any balloon
in which a human being shall ascend or which shall be intended for
use in such ascension.
No person shall keep or maintain or be an inmate
of or in any way connected with or in any way contribute to the support
of any disorderly house or house of ill fame or knowingly own or be
interested as proprietor or landlord of any such house.
A.
No person shall keep or be an inmate of a gambling
house or room or visit such gambling house or room. No person shall
have or keep or permit to be used in any building or place in the
town occupied or controlled by such person any keno table or roulette
table, faro bank, shuffleboard, bagatelle, playing cards or any instrument
or device or thing used for gambling whereon or with which money,
liquor or other articles shall in any manner be played for.
B.
No owner or keeper of or any person within such gambling
house or room shall refuse to permit the Supervisor, Justice of the
Peace or any peace officer to enter the same, or shall obstruct or
resist any of the aforesaid officers or persons summoned by them to
assist in entering such place or in the destruction of any such instruments
or devices employed in gambling in such places.
[Added 9-10-2019 by L.L. No. 8-2019]
Any conduct which constitutes a violation of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be a violation punishable by a fine of no less than
$75 and no more than $250 and/or up to 15 days in jail. Each such
violation under this chapter shall constitute a separate violation
punishable under this section.
