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New York State Consolidated Laws
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
ARTICLE
9, TITLE 3
(
NOTE: FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY !!! )
Section 9-0305. Signs and
advertising in Adirondack and Catskill parks.
1. In order to conserve the
natural beauty of the Adirondack and Catskill parks, to preserve and regulate
the said parks for public uses for the resort of the public for recreation,
pleasure, air, light and enjoyment, to keep them open, safe, clean, and in good
order for the welfare of society, and to protect and conserve the investment of
the state in forest lands, campsites and other interests in real property in
said parks, no person shall erect or maintain within the boundaries thereof any
advertising sign, advertising structure or device of any kind, except under
written permit from the department. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to signs
erected or maintained upon a parcel of real property in connection
with the principal business or principal businesses conducted thereon and which
advertise such business or businesses
only, or to signs within the limits of an incorporated village.
As to signs, structures or devices existing within the
Catskill park on May 26, 1969, and which require a permit pursuant to this
section, the same may continue to be maintained without permit until
January 1, 1976 provided that the property owner or owner of such sign,
structure or device registers the same with the department on or before January
1, 1972.
As to signs, structures or devices existing on May 31,
l972 in those portions of the Adirondack park added
thereto by chapter six hundred sixty-six of the laws
of nineteen hundred seventy-two, and which require a permit pursuant to this
section, the same may continue to be maintained without permit until January 1,
1978, provided that the property owner or owner of such sign, structure or
device registers the same with the department on or before January 1, 1975.
2. Whenever a sign, structure or device has been
erected or is being maintained in violation of the provisions of subdivision one
of this section, the
commissioner shall cause a notice
of such violation, specifying as nearly as may be the nature and location of
such sign, structure or device, to be personally served upon the owner of record
of the real property upon which the same
is located, hereinafter referred to as the property owner. In addition, a copy
of such notice shall be personally served upon the owner of such sign, structure
or device, if his name and address and the fact that he is the owner is clearly
indicated thereon.
3. The property owner or the owner of such sign,
structure or device shall remove the same within ten days from the date of the
last service of such notice or copy thereof as hereinabove specified. In the
event of the failure of the property owner or the owner to remove such sign,
structure or device within such ten day period, the commissioner may cause an
agent or employee of the department to enter upon the property where such sign,
structure or device is located and to remove the same.
4. No action for
trespass or damages shall lie on account of entry upon private property by an
authorized agent or employee of the department engaged in carrying out any of
the provisions of this section.
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