[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Oyster
Bay 5-6-1980 by L.L. No. 4-1980. Section 151-4 amended at time
of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other
amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town Board of the Town of Oyster Bay finds and declares
that it has been the custom and practice within the Town of Oyster
Bay to annually observe Memorial Day, to honor all deceased war veterans
and all the men and women who were killed in the defense of the United
States of America in wartime and to traditionally mark said Memorial
Day by parades and memorial exercises and the decoration of monuments
and graves; and that said parades, exercises and decorating in commemoration
of said dead have been traditionally conducted within the Town of
Oyster Bay between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
A.Â
All trades, manufacturers or mechanical employments upon Memorial
Day of each year are hereby prohibited between the hours of 9:00 a.m.
and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, except that when the same are works
of necessity, they may be performed on that day in their usual and
orderly manner, so as not to interfere with the observance of said
day.
B.Â
All manner of public selling or offering for sale of any property
upon Memorial Day of each year is prohibited between the hours of
9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, except as follows:
(1)Â
Articles of food may be sold, served, supplied and delivered at any
time before 10:00 a.m., prevailing time.
(2)Â
Meals may be sold to be eaten on the premises where sold at any time
of the day.
(3)Â
Caterers may serve meals to their patrons at any time of the day.
(4)Â
Prepared tobacco, bread, milk, eggs, ice, soda water, fruit, flowers,
confectionery, souvenirs, newspapers, gasoline, oil, tires, drugs,
medicines and surgical instruments may be sold and may be delivered
at any time of the day.
(5)Â
Grocers, delicatessen dealers and bakeries may sell, supply, serve
and deliver cooked and prepared foods, and roadside stands selling
fresh vegetables and other farm produce and fishing tackles and bait
stores may sell, supply, serve and deliver merchandise usually sold
by them at any time of the day.
For the purpose of this chapter, the observance of Memorial
Day shall be upon such day as may be set aside for said observance
by § 24 of the New York General Construction Law as amended.
Failure to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter
shall be deemed a violation and the violator shall be liable to a
fine of not more than $250, or imprisonment for not more than 15 days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
