Section 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law empowers the City of New Rochelle to adopt local laws to protect and enhance its physical and visual environment. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of New Rochelle to better the degree of purity of the air resources of the City by eliminating the use of refuse-burning equipment.
[Adopted 12-10-2002 by L.L. No. 4-2002]
Whenever used in this article the following terms shall mean:
The City of New Rochelle Building Official.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Westchester County Health Department.
An individual, corporation, club, partnership, association, legal entity, society, or any other organized group of persons, and shall include officers, directors and trustees of a corporation, club, association or society.
Equipment which is designed to burn solid waste and yard waste.
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials that are discarded, including but not limited to garbage, refuse, commercial waste, rubbish, ashes and incinerator residue. Solid waste shall not be understood to include recyclables.
Organic substances or components thereof which typically grow on or around properties, including grass, brush, shrubbery, leaves, flowers, vegetables and branches less than three inches in diameter.
The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Building Official.
An offense against the provisions of this article shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $2,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both. Each and every day that an offense continues shall be deemed a separate violation subject to separate penalty.