[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Southampton 4-10-2014 by L.L. No. 3-2014. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Town of Southampton (hereinafter referred to as the Town)
is the owner of various historic burial grounds, including certain
historic burial grounds situate within the Village of Southampton
(hereinafter referred to as the Village). The Town has enacted regulations
which prohibit certain acts on Town-owned historic burial grounds,
such regulations being set forth in § 111-2.1 of the Town
Code. The Town has requested that the Village enact regulations which
prohibit such acts on Town-owned historic burial grounds situate within
the Village, so that violations of the Town's regulations with respect
to Town-owned historic burial grounds situate within the Village may
be enforced as violations of the Village Code. The purpose of this
chapter is to accomplish the foregoing.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes all historic cemeteries, burial grounds and abandoned
cemeteries owned by the Town of Southampton situate within the Village
of Southampton.
The following shall be prohibited on Town-owned historic burial
grounds:
A.
Defacement; damage; graffiti. No person shall deface, destroy or
damage in any manner nor place graffiti on any structure, roadway,
sign, building or gravestone located on a Town-owned historic burial
ground.
B.
Glass objects, litter, refuse and injurious substances. No person
shall throw, break, or deposit a glass object, litter or refuse, including
household waste, or any injurious substance of any nature on any Town-owned
historic burial ground or upon any parking area, roadway or pathway
thereof.
C.
Animals. Dogs or other domestic animals shall not be allowed on Town-owned
historic burial grounds.
D.
Prohibited recreational use: No person shall use Town-owned historic
burial grounds for recreational uses, including but not limited to
games such as football, soccer, baseball, kickball, frisbee and softball;
Halloween walks; gravestone rubbing; or any other recreational use
that may injure or damage historic grave sites and/or stones.
E.
Hours. No person shall enter Town-owned historic burial grounds for
any purpose between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
B.
In the event that the Code of the Town of Southampton is hereafter amended so as to modify any prohibited act incorporated in § 66-3 above, such prohibited act shall automatically be deleted from § 66-3 above. The Village Board of Trustees may by resolution incorporate the modified prohibited act in § 66-3 above.
