[Ord. No. 45, §§ 1-4, 1-10-1966; L.L. No. 5-1996, § 1]
(a) 
It is hereby declared and found that abandoned, junked, discarded, dismantled and unlicensed motor vehicles in and upon real property within the Village is a matter affecting the public interest, that it constitutes a nuisance in that health, fire and safety hazards are created and that consequently this matter is subject to supervision and control for the purpose of safeguarding the public health, safety and general welfare of the people of the Village.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either as owner, lessee, occupant or otherwise, to store or deposit or cause or permit to be stored or deposited an abandoned, junked, discarded, dismantled or unlicensed motor vehicle or cycle in and upon any vacant lot or land or vacant place upon the surface of any lot or land, enclosed or otherwise, within the Village. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the parking, storage or deposit of an unlicensed motor vehicle or cycle, the lawful license or registration of which in the State of New York has been suspended, revoked or has expired, in a side or rear yard upon a lot which is actually occupied by the owner of such vehicle, for a period of not more than 90 days from the date of such suspension, revocation or expiration, whichever shall have first occurred.
(c) 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable for and pay a penalty as prescribed in § 1-7. Said violation shall constitute and is hereby declared to be disorderly conduct, and any person violating this section or any provision thereof shall be and hereby is declared to be a disorderly person. The Building Inspector is authorized to enforce the provisions of this article by issuance of an appearance ticket or other process.
(d) 
In addition thereto, if the provisions of Subsection (b) are not complied with, the Building Inspector or the Clerk of the Village shall serve or cause to be served a written notice upon the owner, lessee or occupant of any premises to comply with the provisions of this section. If the owner of such lot or land is absent from the Village, or is a nonresident of the Village, the Building Inspector or the Clerk shall mail or serve to be mailed such written notices to such owner, addressed to the last known address as the same may appear upon the last Village assessment roll. If the person upon whom the notice is served fails, neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of the said notice within five days after such service or mailing of such notice, the Department of Public Works of the Village or its authorized contractor or agent may cause such abandoned, junked, discarded, dismantled or unlicensed motor vehicles or cycle to be removed and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law relating to abandoned vehicles and such nuisance to be suppressed, and the total cost thereof shall be certified to the Clerk of the Village and shall be assessed upon the premises on which such abandoned, junked, discarded, dismantled or unlicensed motor vehicles or cycle is found, and shall constitute a lien and charge on the lots or parcels of land on which it is levied until paid or otherwise satisfied or discharged, and shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the collection of delinquent taxes.
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Cross Reference: Littering, Ch. 10, Art. III; junkyards and junk dealers, Ch. 13.
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove carts, baskets or other devices, furnished by merchants for the convenience of customers for use on the mercantile premises, from such premises without the express written consent of the merchant. Any person removing such items shall be guilty of a violation and shall be punished as prescribed in § 1-7. Copies of this subsection shall be posted in conspicuous places in and on the mercantile premises and on such carts, baskets or other devices.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any such cart, basket or other device unattended in the Village, and any such cart, basket or other device left unattended in the Village shall be deemed abandoned and is hereby declared a nuisance. Such abandoned carts, baskets or other devices shall be impounded by the Village and shall be released to the owners thereof, upon proper proof of ownership, upon payment of a fee in the amount of $5 for each such cart, basket or other device impounded.
[Ord. No. 17, § 1, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw in, upon or across any street in the Village any snowball, stone or other missile; to raise or fly any kite or balloon or to drive or roll a hoop; to play any games with quoits or with a ball of any material, shape or size where the same is kicked, tossed, thrown or struck in, upon or over any street in the Village; or to play or engage in any other game, amusement or exercise which interferes with the free, safe and convenient use of such street or any sidewalk by any person or vehicle traveling or passing on or along the same.
[L.L. No. 8-2008,[1] § 2]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
IN-LINE SKATES
Shoes, skates or footwear with a single row of wheels.
ROLLER SKATES
Shoes, skates or footwear with two or more rows of roller wheels.
SKATEBOARD
A narrow board of wood, plastic, fiberglass or similar material with roller-skate or other type of wheels attached to each end and used for gliding or moving on any hard surfaces, without a mechanism or other device for steering while being used, operated or ridden.
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Editor's Note: Section 1 of this local law also repealed former § 15-4, Skating or using roller coasters, etc., adopted 3-30-1931 by Ord. No. 17, § 1.
[L.L. No. 8-2008, § 2]
No person shall use or operate a skateboard/in-line skates/roller skates upon any public streets (including the entire paved and improved surfaces thereof, including gutter areas, from curb-to-curb, where curbs exist), sidewalks or on any public lands within the Village of Tuckahoe:
A. 
In a careless manner without due caution and circumspection;
B. 
While endangering, or in any manner to create a risk or danger to, any person or property; or
C. 
In any manner to impede or interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
[L.L. No. 8-2008, § 2]
A. 
Every person operating a skateboard/roller skates/in-line skates shall operate the same in strict observance of Article 34 of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law relating to the operation of bicycles and play vehicles, except as to those provisions which by their nature can have no application.
B. 
The operator of a skateboard/roller skates/in-line skates emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall, upon approaching a sidewalk, yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians approaching said walk.
C. 
Whenever any person shall operate a skateboard/roller skates/in-line skates upon a sidewalk, such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
D. 
No person shall operate a skateboard/roller skates/in-line skates at nighttime unless he or she is wearing reflective clothing which shall be visible from a distance of not less than 50 feet and a maximum of 300 feet from the front, side and rear when directly in front of the lawful beams of a headlight on a motor vehicle. "Reflective clothing" shall be defined, for the purposes of this article, as any shirt, vest or jacket or any other readily visible piece of apparel equipped with a reflective surface.
E. 
Every person operating a skateboard/roller skates/in-line skates shall wear a protective helmet.
[L.L. No. 8-2008, § 2]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $25 for the first offense and not more than $50 for each offense thereafter.
[L.L. No. 8-2008, § 2]
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, word, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, word, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which said judgment shall have been rendered.
[Ord. No. 17, § 3, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to promote or encourage the fighting of birds or animals in any street.
[Ord. No. 17, § 4, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to coast with hand sleds, carts, bobs or other vehicles on wheels or runners except upon such streets and during such time as shall be prescribed by the Board of Trustees. Such streets shall be designated by suitable signs while such use is permitted and blocked off from traffic.
[Ord. No. 17, § 5, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to use, carry, shoot or discharge in, upon, along or across any street, any air gun, air rifle, bean shooter, bow and arrow, sling or other instrument for throwing or shooting bullets, stones, beans or other missiles.
[Ord. No. 17, § 6, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct or participate in foot or other races in, upon or along any street, except by written permission of the Village Clerk.
[Ord. No. 17, § 7, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit from any window or open space or anywhere to the public upon the street or the sidewalk thereof any performance of puppet or other figure, ballet or other dancing, comedy farce, show with moving figures, play or other entertainment.
[Ord. No. 17, § 8, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to participate in any parade, gathering, assemblage or demonstration upon any street, square, park or other place to which the public has access or is invited, which parade, gathering, assemblage or demonstration has not been authorized by a written permit from the Mayor.
[Ord. No. 17, § 9, 3-30-1931]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, either individually or in groups, to remain standing or loafing or lounging on any of the streets, bridges, street platforms, sidewalks or crosswalks in such manner as to obstruct the free passage of vehicles or pedestrians.
(b) 
No person or persons shall remain standing, loafing or sitting on any private platform or stoop in front of, or on any stairway or entrance into or upon the street from any building or in any hallway or passage of any building or anywhere in or about private property without the permission of the owner or occupant of such building.
(c) 
No persons or person shall loiter, loaf or remain upon any street or sidewalk or bridge nor shall any person or persons remain or saunter on a sidewalk, crosswalk or bridge in said manner after being ordered by a police officer to move on.
[Ord. No. 17, § 10, 3-30-1931]
Nothing in §§ 15-3 through 15-11 shall prohibit the setting aside of streets or sections thereof for a limited period of time for playground purposes by the Village Board, under proper supervision, and it is hereby empowered to do so. Such streets or section thereof, while used for playground purposes, shall be blocked off from traffic and properly marked.
[Ord. No. 18, § 1, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, mutilate or otherwise injure or deface any flag, bunting, paraphernalia or other property of the Village used for decorative purposes upon the streets or public buildings or public structures or any socket, pole, wire, rope or other property of the Village used in connection with the regulation of street parades or to remove the same without the permission of the official, bureau or department controlling such property.
[Ord. No. 18, § 2, 3-30-1981; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, break or in any way injure any grading stake, stone or other mark or monument set by the order or under the authority of the Village Engineer or his assistants to designate grades, corners, lines or bench marks, or in any manner to erase or deface or change any letters, figures or marks thereon, or willfully to remove or injure any barricades about any improvement in the course of construction.
[Ord. No. 18, § 3, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, cover over, tear down, change or destroy any advertisement, notice or ordinance posted by order of the Board of Trustees or official of the Village or any other public official.
[Ord. No. 18, § 4, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to build or cause to be built any fire or to burn or cause to be burned any rubbish of any kind or nature upon any paved street.
[1]
Cross Reference: Fire prevention and protection.
[Ord. No. 18, § 5, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, molest, deface or interfere with any apparatus used by the Police Department or without authority to use any such apparatus.
[L.L. No. 3-1975, §§ 1 — 4[1]]
(a) 
Definitions. Whenever in this section the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this subsection:
FALSE HOLDUP ALARM
Any signal actuated by a holdup alarm to which the police respond, which is not the result of a burglary, robbery or other crime, emergency or malfunction.
HOLDUP ALARM
Any police alarm device designed to be actuated by a criminal act or other emergency at a specific location or by a victim of burglary, robbery, or other emergency or criminal act at a specific location.
POLICE ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when a actuated by a criminal act or other emergency requiring police response, transmits a prerecorded message or other signal by telephone, radio or other means to a central alarm station or directly to the police or produces an audible or visible signal designed to notify persons within audible or visible alarm range of the signal.
(b) 
Intentional false alarms declared violation. It shall be a violation of this section to intentionally cause a false holdup alarm, and any person who does intentionally cause a false holdup alarm shall be subject to the penalty provisions of Subsection (d) herein.
(c) 
Charges for false holdup alarms. Any owner or lessee of property having a police alarm device or system of police alarm devices on his or its premises on the effective date of this section [April 14, 1975] shall pay to the Village a charge for each and every false holdup alarm to which the police respond, in each calendar year, as follows:
(1) 
First two false holdup alarms to which the police respond, provided that such holdup alarm cannot be attributed to the fault or negligence of the homeowner or, in the event of a business premises, to the proprietor or any employee: no charge.
(2) 
Third false holdup alarm: $10.
(3) 
Fourth and fifth false holdup alarms, each: $25.
(4) 
All false holdup alarms over five, each: $50.
The above charges shall be collected by the Village Court and be paid to the Village Treasurer. Failure to pay any such charges shall subject such owner, lessee or user to the penalty provisions of this section.
(d) 
Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation who does not pay any charge established in Subsections (b) and (c) shall be subject to a fine of an amount which shall not be in excess of $250 for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during which a violation occurs or is committed.
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Editor's Note: Local Law No. 3-1975, §§ 1 — 4, did not expressly amend the Code; hence, inclusion herein as § 15-17.1 is at the discretion of the editor.
[Ord. No. 18, § 6, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to open or attempt to open or to draw water from, without the written consent of the Village Clerk, or in any manner willfully to injure, deface or obstruct the use of any fire hydrant or to keep or place an obstruction, article or material of any kind in front of any such hydrant between the curbline and the center of the street or within five feet of either side of such hydrant.
[Ord. No. 18, § 7, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, injure, deface, pollute, disturb or illegally trespass upon any public fountain, watering place or reservoir or to throw or deposit any substance therein.
[Ord. No. 18, § 8, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to break, injure or remove any portion of any catch basin, manhole cover or sewer or any appurtenance thereto.
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Cross Reference: Water and sewers and sewage disposal, Ch. 23.
[Ord. No. 18, § 9, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, injure, deface or interfere with in any manner any lamp or light used for lighting any street or public place or willfully to injure, break or destroy any lamppost or any machinery or fixture connected directly or indirectly with any such lamp or light or willfully to cut, break, injure or remove any wire connected with any electric lamp or to place thereon or attach thereto any instrument or device or to make any connection or communication therewith so as to interrupt or interfere with the proper use and working of such lamp.
[Ord. No. 18, § 10, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dig, remove or carry away or cause to be dug, removed or carried away, without the consent of the Village Clerk and under the supervision of the Street Commissioner, any stone, sod, earth, sand or gravel from any street or public ground, or without the consent of the owner from any other premises, or remove, injure, deface or destroy the pavement of any street or public place or sidewalk thereof.
[Ord. No. 18, § 11, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to nail, stamp, paste, stick or in any other manner to attach any sign, device, poster, handbill or placard of any description upon or to mark with ink, chalk, paint or other substance, or to cut or hack or in any other manner deface, injure or destroy any wall, door, bridge, sidewalk, curb, public or private building, fence, tree, structure, traffic sign or signal, street sign, post, pole used for the purpose of carrying electrical conductors or other thing appurtenant thereto without the consent of the owner, occupant or person having custody or control thereof, provided that this section shall not apply to the posting of any notice which is required by law to be posted.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also § 10-51 of Ch. 10, Garbage, Trash and Refuse.
[Ord. No. 18, § 12, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, deface, remove, mutilate or destroy property of another, either public or private; any monument or street sign or marks thereon; any awning, sign, railing, ornamental, shade or fruit tree, tree box, gas or water mains or apparatus of any kind used in connection with any Village department; nor shall any person take or meddle with any property belonging to the Village or to remove the same from the building or place where it may be kept standing or stored without authority from the official custodian of such property.
(b) 
No person shall trim any ornamental, shade or fruit tree located within the Village street or sidewalk area without obtaining written permission or written direction to trim said tree from the Board of Trustees of the Village.
[Ord. No. 18, § 13, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass on a grass plot in any street or other public place when forbidden by signs placed by the Village.
[Ord. No. 18, § 14, 3-30-1931; Ord. of 11-13-1944]
Nothing contained in §§ 15-13 through 15-25 shall be deemed to apply to officers or employees of any Village department while engaged in the performance of its duties.
Mobile homes are hereby prohibited within the corporate limits of the Village.
[L.L. No. 5-1985, §§ 1, 2[1]]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale to any person under the age of 18 years any can or container containing paint and a propellant and designed to spray paint, commonly known as a "paint spray can."
(b) 
It shall be the duty of any person or entity who sells or offers for sale any container described in Subsection (a) to require from any person desiring to purchase such container identification and proof of such person's age before selling or delivering a container to such a person.
(c) 
Any person or entity selling or offering for sale a can or container of spray paint to a person under the age of 18 years shall be guilty of a violation, as defined under Article 10, § 10(3), of the Penal Law of the State of New York punishable by a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days, or both.
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Editor's Note: Inclusion of L.L. No. 5-1985, §§ 1, 2, adopted 6-24-1985, as § 15-28 has been at the editor's discretion since said law did not expressly amend this Code.