HomeMy WebLinkAboutPet and Livestock WastePLANNING BOARD MEMBERS
DONALD J. WILCENSKI
Chair
WILLIAM J~ CREMERS
KENNETH L. EDWARDS
JAMES H. RICH III
MARTIN H. SIDOR
PLANNING BOARD OFFICE
TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
MAILING ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 1179
Southold, NY 11971
OFFICE LOCATION:
Town Hall Annex
54375 State Route 25
(cot. Main Rd. & Youngs Ave.)
Southold, NY
Telephone: 631 76,5-1938
Fax: 631 765-3136
MEMORANDUM
To: Supervisor Scott Russell
Town of Southold Town Board
From: Mark Terry, Principal Planner %~'
LWRP Coordinator
Date: November 7, 2012
Re:
A Local Law entitled "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 83,
Animals, in connection with Pet and Livestock Waste"
The proposed local law has been reviewed to Chapter 268, Waterfront Consistency
Review of the Town of Southold Town Code and the Local Waterfront Revitalization
Program (LWEP) Policy Standards. Based upon the information provided to this
department as well as the records available to me, it is my recommendation that the
proposed action is CONSISTENT with the LWRP Policy Standards and therefore is
CONSISTENT with the LWRP.
Pursuant to Chapter 268, the Town Board shall consider this recommendation in
preparing its written determination regarding the consistency of the proposed action.
Cc: Martin Finnegan, Town Attorney
Jennifer Andaloro, Assistant Town Attorney
Randolph, Linda
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LL/Amendments to Chapter 83, Pet & Livestock Waste - adopted 10/9/12 - PH 11/7/12 - will need PB
report. Thanks.
OCT 1 0 30E
10/10/2012
RESOLUTION 2012-766
ADOPTED DOC ID: 8187
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION NO. 2012-766 WAS
ADOPTED AT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD ON
OCTOBER 9, 2012:
WHEREAS there has been presented to the Town Board of the Town of Southold, Suffolk
County, New York, on the 9th day of October, 2012, a Local Law entitled "A Local Law in
relation to Amendments to Chapter 83~ Animals~ in connection with Pet and Livestock
Waste" now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold will hold a public hearing on the
aforesaid Local Law at Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the 7th
day of November, 2012, at 7:02 p.m. at which time all interested persons will be given an
opportunity to be heard.
The proposed Local Law entitled "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 83~
Animals~ in connection with Pet and Livestock Waste" reads as follows:
LOCAL LAW NO. 20! 2
A Local Law entitled, "A Local Law in relation to Amendments to Chapter 83~ Animal~ in
connection with Pet and Livestock Waste".
BE IT ENACTED by the Town Board of the Town of Southold as follows:
I. Purpose.
It is the intent of this Article to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community
and to clarify the distinction between domestic pet (animal) and domestic livestock. This
Amendment also clarifies the manner with which domestic pet waste and domestic livestock
waste must be removed from public property.
II. Chapter 83 of the Code of the Town of Southold is hereby amended as follows:
ARTICLE IV
Waterfowl and Gull Feeding and Domestic Pet/Livestock Waste
§83-27. Definitions.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following terms shall, for the purpose of this Chapter,
have the meanings as herein defined. Any word or term not noted below shall be used with a
meaning as defined in Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language,
unabridged (or latest edition).
DOMESTIC PET (ANIMAL) - Any animal that has been bred or raised to live in or about the
habitation of humans and is dependent on people for food and shelter. Domestic pets include,
Resolution 2012-766 Board Meeting of October 9, 2012
but are not limited to, dogs, and
cats..,
DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK - Gm×in?. animals kept either in open fields or structures for training,
boarding, home use, sales, or breeding and production, including, but not limited to, sheep,
swine, donkeys, goats, horses, llamas, and alpacas.
§83-28. Prohibitions.
B. Domestic Pet or Domestic Livestock Waste:
It shall be unlawful for any person, owning, harboring, keeping, or in charge of any
domestic pet or domestic livestock in the Town of Southold to permit or allow such domestic pet
or domestic livestock to soil, defile, or defecate on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk,
passageway, roadway, highway, street, beach, park, preserve or any other public or Town-owned
property; or any place where people congregate or walk; or on any private property without the
permission of the owner of said property. It shall be a violation of this Section unless all feces
are immediately removed by said person in a sanitary manner and then sealed and deposited in a
garbage container or disposed of in a manner consistent with the Town of Southold's
Management Plan for the particular publicly owned property. Any feces disposed of in street
storm collection systems is prohibited.
IlL SEVERABILITY
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Local Law shall be adjudged by any
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect the validity of this law
as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid.
IV. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Local Law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State as provided
by law.
Elizabeth A. Neville
Southold Town Clerk
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Christopher Talbot, Councilman
SECONDER: William Ruland, Councilman
AYES: Ruland, Talbot, Krupski Jr., Evans, Russell
ABSENT: Jill Doherty
Updated: 10/9/2012 10:53 AM by Lynne Krauza Page 2