[Adopted 2-22-1971 by L.L. No. 1-1971 as Ch. 92, Art. III, of the 1971 Code]
[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.[1]
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Editor’s Note: Former Subsection B(5), Permits for special events, was repealed 1-7-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019.
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.