[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-7-1990 as L.L. No. 2-1990]
Be it enacted by the Board of Trustees of the
Village of Croton-on-Hudson, County of Westchester, New York, as follows:
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20
of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain
resolutions of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson shall be known collectively
as the "Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson," hereafter termed
the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws, ordinances
and resolutions contained in the "Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson"
to any other local law, ordinance or resolution appearing in said
Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title,
chapter number, Article number or section number, as if such local
law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws, ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law, are intended as a continuation of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law, ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §
1-3 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and
permanent nature of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson in force on the
date of the adoption of this local law and not contained in such Code
or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby
repealed from and after the effective date of this local law.
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in §
1-3 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson
prior to the effective date of this local law, or any action or proceeding
brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
B. An offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this local law in violation of any legislative provision of
the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture
which may result therefrom.
C. Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other
proceeding pending, or any judgment rendered prior to the effective
date of this local law, brought pursuant to any legislative provision
of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson.
D. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the Village of Croton-on-Hudson.
E. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson
providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating,
straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance
or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway,
park or other public place within the Village of Croton-on-Hudson
or any portion thereof.
F. Any local law or ordinance of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson
appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing
the payment of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any
bond of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson or other instruments or evidence
of the Village's indebtedness.
G. Local laws or ordinances authorizing the purchase,
sale, lease or transfer of property, or any lawful contract or obligation.
H. The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The dedication of property.
J. Any legislation relating to salaries.
K. Any legislation adopted subsequent to August 21, 1989.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section,
Article or part of this local law or of any local law, ordinance or
resolution included in this Code now or through supplementation, 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, Article or part thereof directly involved in the
controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has
been filed in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson
and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until
final action is taken on this local law; and, if this local law shall
be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Village Clerk of
the Village of Croton-on-Hudson by impressing thereon the Seal of
the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, and such certified copy shall remain
on file in the office of said Village Clerk to be made available to
persons desiring to examine the same during all times while the said
Code is in effect. The enactment and publication of this local law,
coupled with the availability of a copy of the Code for inspection
by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and
legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions
known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson,"
or any new local laws or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such
form as to indicate the intention of the Board of Trustees to be a
part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so
that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include
such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements. Whenever such
additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall
be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided
hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing said Code, as
amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing contained in this local
law shall affect the status of any local law, ordinance or resolution
contained herein, and such local laws, ordinances or resolutions may
be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the Board of Trustees
deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the Village Clerk to
keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code
of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson required to be filed in the office
of the Village Clerk for use by the public. All changes in said Code
and all local laws and resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees
subsequent to the enactment of this local law in such form as to indicate
the intention of said Board to be a part of said Code shall, when
finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment
of copies of such changes, local laws or resolutions until such changes,
local laws or resolutions are printed as supplements to said Code
book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the
Village Clerk of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson upon the payment
of a fee to be set by resolution of the Board of Trustees, which Board
may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the periodic supplementation
thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the
Village Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part
or portion of the Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, or who
alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will
cause the legislation of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson to be misrepresented
thereby, or who violates any other provision of this local law, shall
be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for a term of not
more than 15 days, or both.
A. In compiling and preparing the local laws, ordinances and resolutions for publication as the Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions have been made, except as provided for in Subsection
B hereof. In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of the Board of Trustees that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the local laws, ordinances and resolutions had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. In addition, the following changes, amendments or
revisions are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective
date of this local law. (Chapter and section number references are
to the local laws, ordinances and resolutions as they have been renumbered
and appear in the Code.)
[Amended 10-7-2003 by L.L. No. 3-2003; 9-7-2010 by L.L. No.
3-2010]
Except where specifically provided elsewhere,
any person who violates any provision of this Code or fails to comply
with any of its requirements shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty
of a violation pursuant to the Penal Law of the State of New York,
punishable by a fine of no more than $250 or by imprisonment for not
more than 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day
of noncompliance shall be considered a separate offense. Nothing herein
contained shall prevent the Village of Croton-on-Hudson from taking
such other lawful action as necessary to prevent or remedy an infraction.
As used in this local law and the Code adopted
hereby, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, corporation, association,
society or group. The masculine shall include the feminine, and the
singular shall include the plural.
VILLAGE
The Village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article
I of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article 1, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§
1-1 to
1-15, inclusive.
This local law shall take effect immediately
upon filing with the Secretary of State of the State of New York.