http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/12...to-ticket-man-washing-his-car-on-long-island/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A video has gone viral after a Long Island man recorded a police officer who threatened to ticket him if he washed his car in the driveway.
As WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall reported Friday, the incident happened on Hawthorne Road in Garden City.
The 24-year-old said he was washing his 1997 Volkswagen in his driveway when a police officer told him he wasn’t allowed to do that.
“What is that? Doing any kind of work here or any kind of detailing, like washing the car — things like that you are not allowed to do,” the police officer said.
The officer said although the car wasn’t going to be washed in the street, which is illegal, washing it in the driveway would still be in the public’s view, Hall reported. No one received a ticket during the ordeal and The Garden City Police Department had no comment about the incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QB0MLZZc63c
Garden City Code of Ordinances Chapter 178-3, Article II:
No person shall wash or cause to be washed, clean or cause to be cleaned, beat or cause to be beaten any rugs, curtains, furniture, tapestry, clothing or other like articles upon any sidewalk, public street, highway or public place within the village, and no person shall wash or cause to be washed any motor vehicle or like conveyance upon any public street, highway or public place. http://www.ecode360.com/9148049?highlight=vehicles,vehicle,washing,washed,wash#9148049
The police officer is trying to enforce someone's vendetta against his neighbor based on the wrong part of the Village Code. You're allowed to wash your vehicle on your property just not in the street or on your swale or other publicly-owned property. If the cop knew the code, he would have told the supervisor he was being sent on an enforcement action which was not possible. Sometimes though, the lieutenant or sergeant tells you to do something, and you do it to avoid friction between him/her and the officer, within-reason of course. Most people don't know the code, including many of those whose job it is to enforce it. A zoning code officer should be the person to approach the homeowner, but the code officer would have known the proper administration of the code, and wouldn't have bothered approaching the house. He would have told the supervisor too, about the request for intervention, and its unenforceability.
It looks like the cop knew he was being recorded before he asked about it, and he seemed to be pretty-reasonable about it.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A video has gone viral after a Long Island man recorded a police officer who threatened to ticket him if he washed his car in the driveway.
As WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall reported Friday, the incident happened on Hawthorne Road in Garden City.
The 24-year-old said he was washing his 1997 Volkswagen in his driveway when a police officer told him he wasn’t allowed to do that.
“What is that? Doing any kind of work here or any kind of detailing, like washing the car — things like that you are not allowed to do,” the police officer said.
The officer said although the car wasn’t going to be washed in the street, which is illegal, washing it in the driveway would still be in the public’s view, Hall reported. No one received a ticket during the ordeal and The Garden City Police Department had no comment about the incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QB0MLZZc63c
Garden City Code of Ordinances Chapter 178-3, Article II:
No person shall wash or cause to be washed, clean or cause to be cleaned, beat or cause to be beaten any rugs, curtains, furniture, tapestry, clothing or other like articles upon any sidewalk, public street, highway or public place within the village, and no person shall wash or cause to be washed any motor vehicle or like conveyance upon any public street, highway or public place. http://www.ecode360.com/9148049?highlight=vehicles,vehicle,washing,washed,wash#9148049
The police officer is trying to enforce someone's vendetta against his neighbor based on the wrong part of the Village Code. You're allowed to wash your vehicle on your property just not in the street or on your swale or other publicly-owned property. If the cop knew the code, he would have told the supervisor he was being sent on an enforcement action which was not possible. Sometimes though, the lieutenant or sergeant tells you to do something, and you do it to avoid friction between him/her and the officer, within-reason of course. Most people don't know the code, including many of those whose job it is to enforce it. A zoning code officer should be the person to approach the homeowner, but the code officer would have known the proper administration of the code, and wouldn't have bothered approaching the house. He would have told the supervisor too, about the request for intervention, and its unenforceability.
It looks like the cop knew he was being recorded before he asked about it, and he seemed to be pretty-reasonable about it.
