[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Lattingtown; amended by L.L. No. 1-1998 (Art. 6
of the 1998 General Ordinance Compilation). Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes but is not limited to waste from the preparation,
cooking and consumption of food, metal, glass, plastic and paper containers
for food and household products; paper, cartons, rags, dead animals,
putrescible substances, manure and similar disposable items.
Dry combustible or noncombustible materials which shall include
but are not limited to ashes, magazines, books, newspapers, clothing,
wooden crates and pieces of metal, junk, discarded furniture, rugs
and carpets.
Includes but is not limited to building materials, concrete,
fill, inoperable or wrecked automobiles, automobile parts, plumbing
fixtures and household, appliances.
No person shall throw, place, litter, deposit
or dump or suffer or permit any servant, agent, employee, or person
in his charge to throw, place, litter, deposit or dump any garbage,
rubbish or trash of any kind on the surface of any street, public
grounds or private property in the Village for the purpose of abandonment
or otherwise, except when such garbage, rubbish or trash is placed
on the street in a proper container for normal garbage collection.
A.Â
The owner of any private property in the Village shall
at all times maintain said premises free of garbage, rubbish and trash;
A.Â
Notice to remove. The Building Inspector of the Village
is hereby authorized and empowered to notify, in writing, the owner
of any private property in the Village to properly dispose of any
garbage, rubbish or trash located on such owner's property. Such notice
shall be served personally upon, or be sent by certified mail, return
receipt requested, addressed to said owner at his last known address.
B.Â
Action upon noncompliance. Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any such owner, so notified, to properly dispose of such garbage, rubbish or trash within 20 days after receipt of written notice provided for in Subsection A above, or within 25 days after the date of such notice in the event the same is returned to the Village by the Post Office Department because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner, the Building Inspector of the Village is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such garbage, rubbish and trash or to order its disposal by the Village.
C.Â
Charge included in tax bill. When the Village has
effected the removal of such garbage, rubbish and trash from such
private property or has paid for its removal, the actual cost of such
removal plus accrued interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the
date of the completion of the work, if not paid by such owner prior
thereto, shall be assessed against such property, which assessment
shall be included in the next succeeding annual bill for Village taxes
for such property and shall become a lien thereon when such taxes
become a lien.