[Amended 12-12-1977 by L.L. No. 9-1977]
A. No person shall appear or be upon any street, sidewalk,
highway or in any public hall, park or other public place in the Village
in a condition of intoxication.
B. Open containers of alcoholic beverages.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the
terms used herein are defined as follows:
EVENT
Includes a fair, picnic, block party or other community gathering
in any public place.
PUBLIC PLACE
A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons
has access, including but not limited to any highway, street, road,
sidewalk, parking area, shopping area, place of amusement, playground,
park or beach located within the Village of Rockville Centre, except
that the definition of a "public place" shall not include those premises
duly licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages
on the premises or within and on private property.
(2) Restrictions on possession of alcoholic beverages.
No person shall have in his possession any open bottle, can or container
containing liquor, beer, wine or any other alcoholic beverage while
such person is in a public place, except those premises duly licensed
for sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises, without
the express prior written permission of the Village Clerk of the Incorporated
Village of Rockville Centre.
(3) Consumption of alcoholic beverages. Except as hereinafter
provided, no person shall consume alcoholic beverages in or on any
public place.
(4) Presumption of possession. The existence of any open
bottle, can or other container containing any alcoholic beverages
found in any motor vehicle, except a public omnibus, or in the possession
of any one or more persons in a group congregated in a public place
shall be deemed presumptive evidence that the same is in the possession
of each and every such person.
C. Littering. No person shall throw or deposit upon any
public highway, public street or sidewalk, public parking area or
public park, any substance likely to injure any person, animal or
vehicle upon such public highway, public street or sidewalk, public
parking area or public park.
No person shall indulge in disorderly or noisy
or disturbing conduct within the Village. Any person who commits any
of the following acts will be considered in violation of this provision:
A. Uses or indulges in offensive, disorderly, threatening,
abusive or insulting language, conduct or behavior.
B. Acts in such manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere
with, obstruct or be offensive to others.
C. Loiters or congregates with others on a public street,
sidewalk, park or place for other than a lawfully permitted purpose
and refuses to move on when ordered by the police.
D. By his actions causes a crowd to collect, except when
lawfully addressing such a crowd.
E. Shouts or makes any other noise either outside or
inside a building during the nighttime to the annoyance or disturbance
of any considerable number of persons.
F. Interferes with any person in any place by jostling
against such person or unnecessarily crowding him or by placing a
hand in the proximity of such person's pocket, pocketbook or handbag.
G. Stations himself on the public streets or follows
or approaches pedestrians for the purpose of soliciting alms or solicits
alms on the public streets unlawfully.
H. Frequents or loiters about any public place soliciting
any person for the purpose of committing a crime against nature or
other lewdness.
I. Causes a disturbance in any streetcar, railroad car,
omnibus or other public conveyance by running through it, climbing
through windows or upon the seats or otherwise annoying passengers
or employees therein.
J. Damages, destroys or makes improper or unauthorized
use of any municipal property, including parks, parking fields or
stadiums, or conducts himself in a manner contrary to any notices,
rules or regulations of the Village, or refuses to obey the orders
of any person or persons in authority with respect to the use of or
conduct in or with respect to such property.
K. Destroys the peace and quiet of the Village or any
lawful meeting or assembly therein.
L. Loiters or congregates with others on the street,
sidewalks, doorways or stairways or areas adjacent thereto, or on
stairways, platforms, waiting rooms and escalator of railroad or bus
stops so as to impede traffic, or to the annoyance of passersby or
others.
[Amended 5-3-2010 by L.L. No. 6-2010]
A. No person shall commit or indulge in any lewd, wanton,
indecent, immodest, obscene or filthy act or gesture.
B. No person shall expose, display, post, exhibit, paint,
print or mark upon any wall or object, or place any placard, poster,
bill, painting or sign, either as an advertisement or otherwise, upon
any building, billboard, wall, fence, tree or other surface, so as
to be visible from any street or public place, which shall be of a
lewd, indecent, immodest, immoral or vulgar character such as may
be calculated to shock the sense of decency or propriety.
C. No person
shall place, or cause or allow to be placed, any urine, feces, or
other human waste of any kind upon or into any street or public place.
D. No person
shall urinate or defecate on private property without the permission
of the owner thereof or in view of any person located off such property,
nor at any time in or upon any public street or place.
It shall be lawful hereafter to engage in sports,
games or recreational activities in the Village in any permissible
place, but not before 2:00 p.m. of the first day of the week if an
admission fee is charged.
[Amended 10-15-1973 by L.L. No. 2-1973; 6-15-1992 by L.L No. 3-1992]
A. Legislative declaration.
(1) The Board of Trustees finds that, for the health,
safety and welfare of the residents of the Village, the laws designed
to deter the defacement of public and private property through the
use of aerosol spray-paint cans, broad-tipped indelible markers and
other marking devices should be strengthened; that such defacement
of property is most often committed by persons under 18 years of age
using aerosol spray-paint cans and broad-tipped indelible markers;
that such aerosol cans and markers are frequently stolen from retail
stores by such persons; that such persons rarely have a legitimate
need for such aerosol cans or markers; that, where such a need exists,
said aerosol cans or markers may be furnished by a parent or guardian;
and, therefore, that, within the Village, the sale of such aerosol
cans and markers to such persons should be prohibited and persons
engaged in the retail sale of such aerosol cans and markers should
be required to take reasonable steps to prevent the theft of such
cans and markers.
(2) It is the further finding of the Board of Trustees
that such defacement, if allowed to remain without reasonably prompt
restoration, encourages and results in further defacement of the same
property and of other property, both publicly owned and privately
owned, and should be removed within 10 days.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter without
authority or to trespass upon or to damage or deface any private property
or property owned by or under the control of the Incorporated Village
of Rockville Centre.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or inscribe
or suffer to be placed or inscribed on any building or structure located
in any public place or in any place open to view by the public any
writings, drawings or markings, however done, containing rude, immoral,
lewd, obscene or indecent matter or containing any other matter which
would serve to mar, deface, blemish or disfigure such building or
other structure.
D. If any such writings, drawings or markings shall appear upon the exterior of any of the places set forth in Subsection
C hereof, they shall be promptly removed by the owner within 10 days after receipt of written notice to remove shall have been given by the Village.
E. No person shall carry an aerosol spray-paint can or
broad-tipped indelible marker into any public building or other public
facility with intent to violate the provisions of this section.
F. No person shall sell or offer to sell an aerosol spray-paint
can or broad-tipped indelible marker to any person under 18 years
of age.
G. All persons who sell or offer for sale aerosol spray-paint
cans or broad-tipped indelible markers shall not place such cans or
markers on display and may display only facsimiles of such cans or
markers containing no paint or ink.
H. For the purpose of this section, the term "broad-tipped
indelible marker" shall mean any felt-tip marker or similar implement
containing a fluid that is not water soluble and which has a flat
or angled writing surface 1/2 inch or greater.
I. Any person who violates the provisions of Subsection
B,
C or
E of this section shall be guilty of a violation. Any person who violates the provisions of Subsection
D,
F or
G of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000.
J. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
of this section shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate
the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the
clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved
in the controversy and in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
K. This section shall take effect 60 days after its adoption
by the Board of Trustees.