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Board schedules hearings to allow code-enforcement officer to enforce animal-defecation rule
Summary
Trustees scheduled public hearings on a proposed update to village ordinance 53-9 to permit code-enforcement officers, rather than police, to enforce animal-defecation rules, citing police availability concerns.
The board voted to set public hearings on local law number 2 of 2026, which would update village ordinance 53-9 to allow the code-enforcement officer to enforce rules concerning animal defecation.
The chair said police are sometimes "not around to see everything" and that a dedicated code-enforcement officer "doesn't miss too much," explaining the rationale for transferring enforcement authority. Trustees voted to set two public hearings for the proposed local law.
The item was presented as procedural: the board set hearing dates and did not adopt the law. Any final change would follow the hearing process and include public comment.
