Town of North Hempstead, NY
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Chapter 20 Environmental Quality Review
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration and Enforcement
- Ch 2A Unsafe Property and Buildings
- Ch 3 Attendance of Employees At Outside Meetings
- Ch 4 Appearance Tickets; Authority to Prosecute
- Ch 4A Balloons
- Ch 5 Bingo
- Ch 6 (Reserved)
- Ch 7 Building Code
- Ch 8 Building and Safety: Multiple Residence
- Ch 9 Building and Safety: Places of Assembly and Places of Public Assembly
- Ch 9A Building and Safety: Operating Permits
- Ch 10 Numbering of Buildings; Honorary Street Names
- Ch 10A Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 11 Cabarets, Restaurants and Other Places of Public Entertainment
- Ch 11A Cannabis
- Ch 12 Circuses
- Ch 12A Commercial Handbills
- Ch 13 Dealers in Secondhand Merchandise
- Ch 14 Dogs
- Ch 14A Domestic Partnerships, Registration of
- Ch 15 Elections On Propositions
- Ch 15A Election Districts
- Ch 15B Town Clerk; Term of Office
- Ch 16 Employee Organizations
- Ch 16A Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16B Anti-Nepotism
- Ch 17 Excavations, Hazardous
- Ch 18 Highway Excavations and Curb Cuts
- Ch 19 Explosives
- Ch 20 Environmental Quality Review
- § 20-1 Legislative intent.
- § 20-2 Definitions.
- § 20-3 Applicability; compliance.
- § 20-4 Administration and enforcement.
- § 20-5 Designation of lead agency.
- § 20-6 Severability.
- Ch 20A Environmental Planning, Conservation and Care of Trees
- Ch 20B Environmental Trust Fund
- Ch 20C Manhasset Bay Improvement Fund
- Ch 20D Environmental Legacy Fund
- Ch 20E WTC Relief Fund
- Ch 21 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 22 Fire Prevention
- Ch 22A Games of Chance
- Ch 23 Governmental Departments
- Ch 23A Exemption of Real Property Within Villages
- Ch 24 Governmental Operations
- Ch 25 Grading and Soil Removal
- Ch 26 Highways: Notice of Defect
- Ch 27 Historic Landmarks Preservation
- Ch 28 Housing, Rehabilitation and Property Maintenance Code
- Ch 28A Housing, Open
- Ch 29 Inflammable Materials
- Ch 29A Underground Storage of Flammable and Other Hazardous Liquids
- Ch 30 Security Gates On Premises Located Within Any Business District
- Ch 31 Junk Dealers
- Ch 32 Drop-Off Bins
- Ch 33 Launderettes
- Ch 34 Littering and Dumping
- Ch 35 Materials, Deposit of
- Ch 36 Movies and Filming
- Ch 37 Mechanical Bucking Devices
- Ch 38 Noise
- Ch 38A Landscaping and Gardening
- Ch 39 Regulation of Town Parks, Town Gardens and Town Docks
- Ch 39A Payroll Deductions
- Ch 40 Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 40A Personal Property, Abandonment of
- Ch 41 Plumbing
- Ch 41A (Reserved)
- Ch 41B Public Parking Fields
- Ch 42 Public Waterways; Structures
- Ch 43 Regulation of Public Spaces
- Ch 44 Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 44A Retirement Incentive Program
- Ch 45 Sand Bank and Pit Excavations
- Ch 46 Sanitation
- Ch 46A Stormwater Management and Sediment and Erosion Control
- Ch 47 Sewers
- Ch 47A Water
- Ch 47B Storm Sewers
- Ch 48 Sidewalks
- Ch 49 Snow Removal, Snow Emergencies and Street Cleaning
- Ch 51 Taxation
- Ch 52 Taxicabs, Limousines and Private Livery Vehicles
- Ch 54 Tobacco
- Ch 55 Tow Trucks
- Ch 56 (Reserved)
- Ch 57 Town Facilities
- Ch 58 Governmental Transparency
- Ch 59 Town Lands, Shorefronts and Land Under Water
- Ch 59A Town Property: Notice of Defects
- Ch 60 Trade On Memorial Day
- Ch 61 Trespass
- Ch 62 Unattended Animals
- Ch 63 Unsafe Structures
- Ch 64 Utility Pole Space, Condemnation of
- Ch 64A Double Utility Poles, Removal of
- Ch 64B Utility Pole Hazardous Chemical Warning
- Ch 65 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 65A Vehicles, All-Terrain
- Ch 65B Failure to Stop for School Buses
- Ch 66 Skateboards, In-Line Skates and Similar Devices
- Ch 67 Bamboo
- Ch 69 Waterways and Regulation of Boats
- Ch 70 Zoning
- Ch 75 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
- Appendix
- Ch 80 Locker Rental Fees For Town Beaches
- Ch 81 Fallout Shelter Rules and Regulations
- Ch 99 Miscellaneous Laws
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Traffic Code
- Art I General Provisions
- Art II Traffic Regulations
- Art III Parking, Standing and Stopping
- Art IV Off-Street Firesafety Parking Zones
- Art V Handicapped Parking
- Art VI Removal and Storage of Vehicles
- Art VII Miscellaneous Provisions
- Sch TC1 Traffic Control Signals
- Sch TC2 Speed Limits
- Sch TC3 School Speed Limits
- Sch TC4 One-Way Streets
- Sch TC5 U-Turn Prohibitions
- Sch TC6 Prohibited Turns At Intersections
- Sch TC7 Prohibited Right Turns On Red Signal
- Sch TC8 Stop Intersections
- Sch TC9 Yield Intersections
- Sch TC9A Gridlock Intersections
- Sch TC10 Trucks Over Certain Weights Excluded
- Sch TC11 Parking Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC12 Parking of Commercial Vehicles Prohibited
- Sch TC13 Parking of Taxicabs Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC14 No Stopping
- Sch TC15 No Standing
- Sch TC16 Parking Prohibited Certain Hours
- Sch TC17 No Stopping Certain Hours
- Sch TC18 No Standing Certain Hours
- Sch TC19 Time Limit Parking
- Sch TC20 Angle and Head-In Parking
- Sch TC21 Loading Zones
- Sch TC22 Taxi Stands
- Sch TC23 Bus Stops
- Sch TC24 Fire Lanes
- Sch TC25 Class A Fire Zones
- Sch TC26 Class B Fire Zones
- Sch TC27 Snow Emergency Routes
- Sch TC28 Commercial Vehicles Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC29 Prohibited Street Entry
- Sch TC30 Lane Use Designations
- Sch TC31 Restricted Parking
- Sch TC32 (Reserved)
- Art IX Port Washington Public Parking District
- Art X Parking Area At Mary Jane Davies Green Park
- Art XI Prospect Avenue Parking Field
- Ch TCI Street Index
[HISTORY: Adopted by the North Hempstead Town Board 2-27-1979 as
L.L. No. 1, 1979 (this local law also repealed former Ch. 20, Environmental
Quality Review, adopted 3-15-1977 as L.L. No. 3, 1977). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It is the intent of the Town Board, in enacting this chapter, to implement
the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act in accordance
with the rules and regulations promulgated by the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation and contained in Title 6, Part 617, of the New
York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR).
A.
The terms and words used in this chapter shall have the
same meanings as such terms and words are defined in Article 8 of the Environmental
Conservation Law of the State of New York and Title 6, Part 617, of the New
York Codes, Rules and Regulations, unless the context requires a different
meaning.
B.
AGENCY
COMMISSIONER
DEPARTMENT
EAF
LEAD AGENCY
PART 617
SEQR
TOWN
The following additional terms shall have the following
meanings:
Any department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public
authority, public corporation, council, office or other governmental entity
performing a governmental or proprietary function for the Town of North Hempstead.
The Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Research Development
of the Town of North Hempstead.
The Department of Planning and Research Development.
An environmental assessment form.
Has the same meaning as the one used in Title 6, Part 617, of the
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.
Title 6, Part 617, of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.
The State Environmental Quality Review Act contained in Article 8
of the Environmental Conservation Law as from time to time amended.
The Town of North Hempstead.
A.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions
of SEQR and Part 617 shall be fully applicable within the unincorporated areas
of the town.
B.
No action, other than an exempt, excluded or Type II
action, as defined in Part 617, shall be carried out, approved or funded by
any agency unless it has complied with SEQR, Part 617 to the extent applicable
and with this chapter.
The Department is hereby delegated the authority to implement this chapter
and administer the enforcement of SEQR and Part 617 within the town, and the
Commissioner or his designated representative shall promulgate rules and regulations
and prescribe a standard EAF as he deems necessary for the implementation
of this chapter and SEQR.
[Amended 8-14-1984 by L.L.
No. 9, 1984]
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, word or part of this chapter
is adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment
shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this chapter, but
shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section
or part of this chapter directly involved in the controversy in which such
judgment is tendered.
