The Town Board of the Town of Rosendale hereby adopts the within article
pursuant to Article 3 and the other applicable sections of the Municipal Home
Rule Law of the State of New York. The purpose of this article shall be to
authorize and empower the Town of Rosendale, its agents, officers and employees,
to remove abandoned and junked vehicles from the real property situated within
the Town of Rosendale, Ulster County, New York, and assess the expenses of
such removal against the property upon which such junked vehicles are situated.
The officers and employees of the Town of Rosendale, under the direction
of the Supervisor and the Town Board, may and are hereby authorized to enter
upon any private lands and real property situated within the Town of Rosendale,
Ulster County, New York, and remove and employ assistants, agents, servants
and contractors to remove any and all junked vehicles and abandoned vehicles
situated on said real property.
The costs and reasonable expenses for such removal and disposal of such
vehicles shall be assessed against the owners of the real property upon which
said junk and said vehicles are situated. This charge shall be added to the
annual tax rolls and shall become a lien upon the real property in the same
manner as the annual taxes raised by the Town of Rosendale. The expenses of
removal of such junk and abandoned vehicles shall be advanced by the Town
of Rosendale, and the said Town of Rosendale shall be reimbursed upon the
collection of the special assessment levy.
Before the Town of Rosendale, its officers, agents, employees, servants
and contractors shall go upon said land, the Town of Rosendale shall notify
the property owner to remove such junked vehicles and abandoned vehicles within
30 days; and at the expiration of said 30 days, the Town of Rosendale shall
then proceed to remove such abandoned and junked vehicles. The notice shall
be sent to the last known owner of the real property, as listed in the current
assessment rolls of the Town of Rosendale, and shall be mailed by ordinary
mail to the address indicated on such rolls.