§ 80-1. Purpose.

A. 

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a minimum standard for the maintenance of the exterior grounds and visible facades of all properties within the Village. This chapter is intended to help provide a stable and inviting neighborhood and to promote public health and safety by prohibiting certain deficiencies in exterior property maintenance which create or contribute to unhealthy, unsightly or hazardous conditions. This chapter is also intended to ensure that property owners or their delegated agents perform such repair and maintenance of properties as will prevent deficiencies that could become an attractive nuisance with regard to children, trespassers or household pets, or that may attract insect or animal pests.

B. 

The adoption and enforcement of this chapter is also intended to serve as a deterrence to substandard exterior property maintenance, and as a tool for protecting property investment, the tax base, and the health, safety and welfare of all Village residents.

C. 

The provisions of this chapter shall be in addition to, and in furtherance of, the New York State Property Maintenance Code.

Editor's Note: See 19 NYCRR 1226.1 et seq.