This chapter shall be known and may be cited hereinafter as the "Offenses
Law of the Village Montebello."
No person in the Village shall engage in tumultuous conduct or be a
vagrant, defined as follows:
A. Tumultuous conduct. Disturb, tend to disturb or aid in
disturbing the peace of others by violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous
conduct, and no person shall knowingly permit such conduct upon any premises
owned or possessed by him or under his control.
B. Vagrancy. For the status or condition of a vagrant, the
following persons shall be termed vagrants:
(1) No lawful means of support. Any person having no lawful
means of employment and having no lawful means of support, realized solely
from lawful occupations or sources, or any person who lives wildly and without
visible means of support.
(2) Loitering. Any person found loitering or strolling in,
about or upon any street, alley or other public way or public place, in or
at any public gathering or assembly or in or around any store, shop or business
or commercial establishment or on any private property or place without lawful
business and conducting himself in a loud, wanton or lascivious manner in
speech or behavior.
(3) Abroad at unusual hours. Any person who wanders about
the streets, alleys or other public ways or places or who is found abroad
at late or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business
and not giving a satisfactory account of himself.
No person in the Village shall:
A. Against public and private property.
(1) Unlawfully, maliciously, wantonly, negligently or otherwise
remove or mar, cut, mark or otherwise injure real property or improvements
thereto or belonging to the Village or any person in the Village.
(2) Fasten in any way any show card, poster or other advertising
device upon any public or private property in the Village unless legally authorized
to do so.
(3) Trespass upon any public or private property within the
limits of the Village of Montebello.
B. Against public property.
(1) Tamper with, injure, deface, destroy or remove any sign,
notice, marker, fire alarm box, fire hydrant, topographical survey monument
or any other personal property erected or placed by the Village.
Commission of the offenses described in the aforementioned provisions
of this chapter upon any tomb, monument, grave, bench, tombstone, footstone,
headstone, post, marker or other monument for or of the dead, erected or being
in any of the cemeteries within the Village of Montebello or upon the lands,
grounds or real property of any cemetery located within the Village of Montebello,
shall be subject to prosecution in accordance with this chapter.
Police officers of the Town of Ramapo, or any Police Department serving the Village, and the Building Inspector of the Village of Montebello, except as regards §
126-3, shall have the power, right and authority to issue an appearance ticket, as the same is defined in Article 150 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the State of New York, for the violation of §
126-4 of this chapter, designated as “Offenses against property.”