[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Babylon
as Ch. IV of the 1938 Code of Ordinances (Ch. 56 of the 1981 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall maintain, conduct or exhibit any common public game
of chance or gambling, or any other game, exhibition or show prohibited by
the laws of the State of New York.
No person shall exhibit, give, present or conduct any circus or menagerie, any theatrical representation or show, any carnival, performance or exhibition whatsoever, or any game, racing or public sport or exercise on the first day of the week, commonly known as "Sunday," except as provided in § 136-3 hereof, nor at any time except as provided in § 136-3 hereof.
The usual entertainment habitually furnished in and by any motion-picture
theater on weekdays and which would be lawful if exhibited on a weekday may
also be exhibited on Sunday after 2:00 p.m. Any ball game when played in a
quiet and orderly manner may be conducted on Sunday after 2:00 p.m.
Without first having obtained a license therefor from the Board of Trustees
and paying the prescribed fee, no person shall exhibit, give, present or conduct
any of the following enumerated activities: pool- or billiard room, shooting
gallery, circus, carousel, merry-go-round, open-air itinerant show or exhibition,
theater, opera house, concert hall, dance hall, skating rink or exhibition,
theatrical performance, concert or show not included in above.
No person, whether holding a license therefor or not, shall exhibit,
give, present or conduct any carnival, circus, carousel, merry-go-round or
any open-air show or exhibition of any kind within the area bounded as follows:
On the east by the easterly boundary of the Village of Babylon, on the south
by the southerly boundary of said Village, on the north by the northerly boundary
of said Village between Litchfield Avenue and the easterly boundary of said
Village, and on the west by the line running from the southerly boundary of
said Village, along the westerly boundary thereof to the tracks of the Long
Island Railway Company, thence along said tracks to Litchfield Avenue and
thence north along said Litchfield Avenue to the northerly boundary of said
Village.
[Added 11-30-1981 by L.L. No. 22-1981]
A.
Any person committing an offense against any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant
to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not exceeding
$250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions
of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a
separate and distinct offense hereunder.
B.
In addition or as an alternative to the above-provided
penalties, the Board of Trustees may also maintain an action or proceeding
in the name of the Village in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel
compliance with or to restrain by injunction the violation of this chapter.
