UntitledTOWN BOARD: TOWN OF WAPPINGER
DUTCHESS COUNTY: NEW YORK
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IN THE MATTER
OF
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AN
AMENDMENT TO AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
THE USE OF PARK LANDS IN THE TOWN
OF WAPPINGER
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
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COUNTY OF DUTCHESS )
AFFIDAVIT OF
POSTING
ELAINE H. SNOWDEN, being duly sworn, deposes and
says:
That she is the duly elected , qualified and acting
Town Clerk of the Town of Wappinger, County of Dutchess
and State of New York.
That on October 9, 1985, your deponent posted a
copy of the attached notice of Public Hearing on an
Amendment to an Ordinance Regulating the Use of Park
Lands in the Town of Wappinger, on the signboard maintained
by your deponent in her office in the Town Hall of the
Town of Wappinger, Mill Street, in the Village of
Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.
Elaine H. Snowden
Town Clerk
Town of Wappinger
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Sworn to before me this C
day of 1985.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing will be held
by the Town of Wappinger Town Board on the 21st -day of October,
1985 at 7:50 P.M. at the Town Hall located on Mill Street,
Wappingers Falls, County of Dutchess and State of New York,
concerning an amendment to an ordinance regulating the use of
park lands in the Town of Wappinger.
The following Ordinance was introduced by SUPERVISOR VERSACE:
BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDAINED as f6llows:
Section 1: That this ordinance shall supersede prior
ordinances regulating the use of park lands in the Town of
Wappinger.
Section 2: This ordinance shall apply to all park lands
within the confines of the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County,
New York, exclusive of those lands lying within the corporate
limits of the Village of Wappinger Falls.
Section 3: It shall be unlawful for anyone to ride,
push, pull or operate a motor vehicle, a motorcycle, motor
bike, a snowmobile, or any other type of vehicle mechanically
driven within any park lands in the Tau --s of Wappinger, except
on highways, roadways or streets or in ,parking areas designated
for the use of such vehicles within such park lands.
Section 4: It shall be unlawful for anyone to ride,
push, pull or operate a motor vehicle, a motorcycle, motor
bike, a snowmobile, or any other type of vehicle mechanically
driven within any area of a park unless that person who is
operating or in charge of the said mechanical device is duly
licensed by the State of New York or the State of his/her
residence.
Section 5: It shall be illegal and unlawful for any
person to use, enter upon or occupy any park lands within the
Town. of Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York, except strictly
during the hours. established for its use by the Town of Wappinger
Recreation Commission. Until the hours are changed by the said
Commission, the legal hours for the parks shall be as follows:
the park lands shall be open one hour before sunrise and shall
be closed one hour after sunset.
Section 6: The Town Board of the Town of Wappinger
hereby delegates to the said Town of Wappinger Recreation
Commission hereafter the duty of establishing the hours for
the use by persons of each of the parks or portions thereof
within the Town of Wappinger. In the event any change of
the park hours shall be made, such hours of opening and closing
shall be posted in the Town Clerk's Office of the Town of
Wappinger and at such other places as the Town Board may
direct. However, regardless of the posting of signs at
the parks themselves it shall be deemed that any user thereof
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is charged with knowledge concerning the hours that the park
shall remain open and the hours when the same is closed. In
the event any person violates the hours of such park opening
and closing as posted at the Town Hall, such person for the
purposes of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a trespass
upon said park lands in violation of this ordinance.
Section 7: In the event the Town of Wappinger
Recreation Commission modifies the hours herein, such modified
schedule shall be filed with the Town Clerk within ten (10)
days after its adoption or amendment and the Town Clerk shall
post such new hours.
Section 8: Any person violating the provisions of this
ordinance shall be guilty of a violation of the Penal Law of
the State of New York.
Section 9: This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon adoption, posting and publication, as provided by Town Law.
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