[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Southampton: Art. I, 5-14-1982 as L.L. No. 4-1982.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Beach erosion and protection — See Ch. 37.
Streets and sidewalks — See
Ch. 96.
Building construction regulations — See Ch. A119.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was originally
adopted as Ch. 36, but was renumbered to fit the alphabetical sequence
of the Code.
[Adopted 5-14-1982 as L.L. No. 4-1982]
The regulation and control of the extraction
and removal of earth products and other excavations are necessary
to protect and to prevent serious and irreparable damage to the public
health, safety and general welfare as well as to make effective the
general purposes of comprehensive planning and zoning.
The excavation or removal of sand, gravel, stone
or other minerals or the stripping or removal of topsoil from any
land in the Village of Southampton without a currently effective permit
issued by the Board of Trustees, is hereby prohibited.
The following operations and uses are hereby
excepted from the application of this chapter:
A.
Excavation or removal of sand, gravel, stone or other
minerals or removal of topsoil on premises owned or maintained by
a municipality.
B.
Excavation or removal of sand, gravel, stone or other
minerals incident to highway, sidewalk or driveway construction or
construction or a single-family residence on the same premises; provided
that topsoil shall not be removed from the premises.
C.
Excavation or removal of sand, gravel, stone or other
minerals incident to the construction of a stormwater basin, recharge
basin or drainage sump on the same premises; provided that topsoil
shall not be removed from the premises.
D.
The moving of topsoil or other earth from one part
to another of the same premises as an incident to building, farming
or landscaping.
A.
The Board of Trustees may, upon application in a specific
case and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards to be prescribed
by such Board, issue a permit for the excavation and removal of sand,
gravel, stone or other minerals or for other excavation purposes or
for the stripping or removal of topsoil, if said Board finds that
such action will not be contrary to the public health, safety or interest
and will not violate any other law.
B.
An applicant for such a permit shall pay an application
fee of $25.
