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]Adopted 11-9-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021 ]

It is the intent of this article to opt the Village of the Branch out of hosting retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption establishments within its boundaries.

This article is adopted pursuant to Cannabis Law § 131 , which expressly authorizes cities and villages to opt out of allowing retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption establishments to locate and operate within their boundaries.

The Board of Trustees of the Village of the Branch, County of Suffolk, hereby opts out of licensing and establishing cannabis retail dispensaries and/or cannabis on-site consumption establishments within its boundaries.

If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this article or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or unconstitutional, the court's order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this article, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this article or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.

This article shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State. Pursuant to Cannabis Law § 131 , this article is subject to a permissive referendum and thus may not be filed with the Secretary of State until the applicable time period has elapsed to file a petition or a referendum has been conducted approving this article. [1] [1] Editor's Note: No petition for referendum was received during the applicable time period.

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of the Branch as Ch. 38 of the 1973 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]

For the purposes of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as follows:

DOG Includes the singular and the plural and both the male and female animal.

PERSON Any person or persons, firm, association or corporation.

It shall be unlawful for any person owning, possessing or harboring any dog to allow such dog, whether licensed or not, to run loose or be at large in any of the territorial limits of the Incorporated Village of the Branch, except upon any real property owned, leased or lawfully occupied by the owner of or person harboring or possessing such dog, without being securely muzzled, unless such dog is under the immediate and full control of the owner or person in charge thereof and unless such dog is on a leash.

[Added 1-9-2007 by L.L. No. 1-2007 ] A. No person owning, possessing, or harboring a dog shall knowingly, carelessly, or negligently permit such dog to commit any nuisance in or upon any public property, including, but not limited to, parks, roadways, streets, walkways, pathways, sidewalks, or off-leash areas, or upon the floor of any theater, store, factory, or any building which is used in common by the public; nor shall any person omit to do any reasonable and proper act or take any reasonable and proper precaution to prevent any such dog from committing such a nuisance in or upon any of the places or premises herein specified. B. No person owning, harboring, keeping, or in charge of any dog shall cause, suffer, or allow such dog to soil, defile, urina...

Any person owning, harboring or keeping a dog shall place and keep on such dog a suitable collar to which shall be securely attached a dog license tag for such dog in accordance with the requirements of Article 7 of the Agriculture and Market Law of the State of New York. No dog shall be permitted to be at large without a collar and tag.

It shall be unlawful to keep more than two dogs six months old or older on any premises, regardless of the number of owners.

[Added 1-9-2007 by L.L. No. 1-2007 ] For the purposes of this chapter, it shall be presumed that any dog harbored in a residential dwelling is owned by and possessed by all adults residing in the residential dwelling wherein the dog is being harbored.

[Amended 1-9-2007 by L.L. No. 2-2007 ] A. Any person who violates or refuses to comply with this chapter shall be liable to a fine not to exceed $500 for each offense or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)] B. The Village Board shall have the power to designate any persons it deems necessary in its discretion to enforce this chapter.

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of the Branch 2-13-1979 by L.L. No. 2-1979 (Ch. 40 of the 1973 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]

The purpose of this chapter is to implement for the Village of the Branch, the State Environmental Quality Review Act and 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 and Part 617 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR), unless the context requires a different meaning. B. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

EAF An environmental assessment form.