[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of South Glens Falls 10-17-1932.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code — See Ch. 69.
Sewers — See Ch. 111.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 141.
[1]
Editor's Note: This legislation previously
appeared as Ch. 105 of the 1977 Code of the Village of South Glens
Falls.
[Added 5-10-1937]
Any person shall not injure any street, highway,
culvert or bridge maintained at the public expense in the Village
of South Glens Falls, New York, by driving, drawing or propelling
over the same any load, vehicle or machinery of such a weight as to
injure or destroy such culvert or bridge, or the surface of the same
or of said streets or highways or the sewage piping or water piping
or other piping of any kind which may be laid under the surface of
said streets or highways; or drive, lead or allow upon said streets
or highways a horse so shod that it will destroy, break or injure
the surface of any improved street or highway; or by any other act
injure, deface or destroy any such street, highway, culvert or bridge,
or the surface of the same.
Any person other than an employee of the Village
in the course of his employment shall not injure or tear up any street
or crosswalk or dig any hole or trench in any street without first
obtaining a permit in writing from the Board of Trustees. Any person
who shall tear up the pavement of any street or dig any hole or trench
in any street shall restore such street and pavement to as good a
condition as it was before and shall keep and maintain the same in
such condition for the period of one year thereafter, and such pavement
shall be relaid under the direction and to the satisfaction of the
Superintendent of Public Works. As a condition to the granting of
the consent above-mentioned, the applicant shall furnish a proper
and sufficient bond to the Village of South Glens Falls conditioned
for the restoration of the street and pavement to as good a condition
as it was before such opening and for its maintenance in such condition
for one year thereafter and also conditioned to indemnify the Village
against all damages or claims for damages. costs, suits, actions or
judgments and the executions that may be brought against it by any
person or on account of injuries to persons or property resulting
therefrom or in anywise connected with such opening or excavation.
In case an excavation made or caused to be made
by any person is closed in such a manner as to leave the street in
a condition which, in the opinion of the Superintendent of Public
Works, is not the same as such street or pavement was in before such
excavation was made, said Superintendent of Public Works shall report
such condition to the Board of Trustees who may require the person
so offending, by a written notice served upon him, to restore, within
the time therein specified, the portion of the street left defective
to its former condition.
In case a person neglects or refuses to restore
said street to its former condition within the time specified in said
notice, the Board of Trustees will direct the Superintendent of Public
Works to do said work, and the expense incurred shall be paid by the
party who made the excavation.
Any person making or causing to be made any
excavation within five feet of the line of any street shall erect
and maintain at all times substantial barriers, at least four feet
in height, between said street and the excavation and between sunset
and sunrise shall keep a lighted lantern or lanterns placed upon said
barriers so as to properly warn all persons of such excavation.
[Amended 3-15-1989 by L.L. No. 3-1989]
No person shall dig into or across the sidewalk
or curb in front of the premises owned or occupied by him or in front
of any other premises or shall cause the same to be done until the
owner or occupant thereof shall have received permission of the Board
of Trustees in writing, which permission shall state the purpose for
which said digging is to be done, and such person, if such digging
has been done, shall put the sidewalk and/or curb and gutter in as
good a condition as they were in before and shall maintain the same
for six months thereafter in such identical condition.
Any person making, or causing to be made, an
excavation in any street shall, between sunset and sunrise on every
night that the same remains open, keep the same fenced and a lighted
lantern or lanterns placed so as to properly warn all persons of such
excavation.
No unauthorized person shall remove, or cause
to be removed, or interfere in any way with any lantern, barrier or
guard erected for public safety or with any stake or monument placed
to locate the line of any street, sidewalk or public improvement in
this Village.
No unauthorized person shall move, or cause
to be moved, or in any way interfere with any barrier, guard light
or danger signal erected for public safety or any stake or monument
placed to locate a street or public improvement in the Village of
South Glens Falls.
No person shall erect any pole within the limits
of any of the streets of this Village without first obtaining permission
in writing from the Board of Trustees, which permission shall particularly
describe the size, width, material and location of such pole.
No person shall hang or cause to be hung any
gate or door so that the same shall swing over any sidewalk except
doors belonging to places of public entertainment, assembly or to
school buildings.
No person shall erect, hang or maintain any
awning over any sidewalk unless the same and its fixtures and flaps
are at least seven feet above the surface of such sidewalk, nor shall
such awning extend more than seven feet from the building to which
it is attached, and no person shall suspend or place any wares, goods
or merchandise upon any sidewalk more than 30 inches in front of any
store, shop or other building so as to obstruct the free passage on
any sidewalk or to any store.
No person or persons shall at any time move
any building or part of a building through or upon any of the public
streets, alleys or lanes in the Village unless by written permission
of the Board of Trustees and upon the conditions expressed in such
permit. Every applicant for the removal of any building or part of
a building upon or through any of the streets, lanes or alleys of
the Village shall be required to set forth in his application to the
Board of Trustees for a permit as herein provided the name of the
street or streets through or along which he expects to move the same,
which application shall be directly verified by the Board of Trustees
before it shall act thereon.
No person shall obstruct the free passage of
any street or sidewalk by means of an automobile, train or engine
standing in an obstructive position upon or across the same for more
than five minutes at any one time between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and
11:00 p.m. nor for more than 30 minutes between the hours of 11:00
p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
[Amended 10-28-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992]
No right-of-way less than 50 feet in width shall
be laid out or accepted by the authorities of this Village, excepting
extensions of rights-of-way which were public highways on the sixth
day of September 1932, which extension may be laid out to the same
width as the right-of-way of which it is an extension.
A.
No person shall place or cause to be placed in any
street materials for building or other purposes without a permit to
do so in writing from the Mayor or the Board of Trustees. No permit
shall be for a period longer than one month nor shall it authorize
the obstruction of more than 1/2 of the sidewalk nor more than eight
feet in width of the roadway adjoining the lot upon which such materials
are to be used.
B.
In special and peculiar cases, the Board of Trustees
may, upon proper application and proof of necessity and upon conditions
to be prescribed by it, grant special permits for a specified time.
C.
Any person acting under such permit shall cause proper
barriers and guards, sufficient to secure public safety, to be erected
around such materials. All materials and rubbish arising therefrom
shall be removed from the street upon the expiration of the term of
said permit or upon suspension or revocation thereof. Any permit may
be suspended, revoked or modified at any time by said Mayor or by
the Board of Trustees.
Any person or persons shall not hereafter erect
or cause to be erected any building or other fixture or shall not
place any encumbrances in or upon, or which shall project into or
over, the line of any public square, street or alley within this Village
without first procuring permission from the Board of Trustees.
[Amended 10-28-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992]
No person shall obstruct, keep or use any part
of any street, walk, lane, public square or other public ground or
any gutter, sewer, drain, brook, watercourse or public reservoir in
any manner or for any other purpose than as authorized by law of this
Village.
No person shall construct or cause to be constructed
a cellarway or stairway leading into any cellar from any street or
sidewalk without the permission in writing of the Board of Trustees,
and such person shall construct said cellarway or stairs in accordance
with the plans and specifications approved by said Board of Trustees.
No trap door covering such cellarway or stairs, entirely or in part,
shall be kept open except while actually receiving or delivering goods,
wares or merchandise.
Every owner or occupant of premises within the
Village of South Glens Falls shall, within 10 days after a written
notice from the Board of Trustees requiring him to do so has been
served upon him either personally or by mail, trim the tree or trees
in front of his premises so that the branches thereof shall not be
less than 10 feet from the surface of the ground.
No person shall ride a bicycle, tricycle or
other vehicle on any of the sidewalks of this Village.
[Amended 1-12-1977 by L.L. No. 17-1977]
Any person committing an offense against this
chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding
$250 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or to both
such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against
the provisions of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the
offense is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.
