[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Centre Island 4-5-1976 by L.L. No. 1-1976 as Art. 9 of the 1976
Municipal Code. Section 40-6 amended and § 40-8 added at
time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other
amendments noted where applicable.]
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Village to provide
for the proper use of land and to prevent unhealthful, hazardous or
dangerous conditions due to accumulations of brush, grass, rubbish,
weeds or other like materials. By this chapter, the Village seeks
to remove such dangers to health, life and property by requiring owners
of land to cut, trim or remove accumulations of brush, grass, rubbish,
weeds, or other like materials and, upon default, to cause the same
to be done and assess the cost against the real properties on which
such brush, grass, rubbish, weeds or other materials are found.
The Board of Trustees may from time to time, by resolution, require notice to be served upon owners as hereinafter provided to remedy any of the conditions designated in § 40-1 which may exist upon the land, pursuant to the provisions of the Village Law of the State of New York, as amended.
Any person being the owner of real property in the Village shall
be required to cut, trim or remove accumulations of brush, grass,
rubbish, weeds or other materials upon his lands when ordered to do
so by resolution of the Board of Trustees to abate a dangerous; unhealthful
or hazardous condition.
A.
Whenever the Board of Trustees shall adopt a resolution requiring
the owner of land within the Village to cut, trim or remove brush,
grass, rubbish, weeds or other materials upon his lands, the Village
Board of Trustees shall specify the place, manner and time, not less
than 10 days from the receipt of the notice, within which such work
shall be commenced.
B.
A notice of the adoption of such resolution shall be served upon
such owner or owners by certified mail addressed to his or their last
known address.
Whenever a notice or notices referred to in § 40-4 hereof has or have been served upon the owner of the respective lots or parcels of land to cut, trim or remove accumulations of brush, grass, rubbish, weeds or other materials and such owner shall neglect or fail to comply with the requirements of such notice or notices within the time provided therein, the Board of Trustees may cause the work to be done and pay the cost thereof.
The Village shall be reimbursed for the cost of work performed or services rendered by direction of the Board of Trustees as provided in § 40-5. When the Village has effected the removal of accumulations of such brush, weeds and like matter from such private property or has paid for its removal, the actual costs of such removal plus accrued interest at the maximum interest rate provided by law 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.
Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the maintenance
by any property owner of his land in a manner reasonably designed
for the specific purpose of providing cover or other natural conditions
conducive to the protection and preservation of wildlife and its supporting
environment.
