Rockland County, NY Ordinances (2026)

Rockland County Code Ch. 353 bars building, filling, excavating or placing obstructions within the one-hundred-year floodplain of any County stream countywide, in every town and…

Rockland County's Drainage Agency runs a countywide stream maintenance program under Chapter 53 of the County Code, inspecting every county stream twice a year and requiring routine…

Rockland County bans idling a motor vehicle engine for more than three consecutive minutes when the vehicle is not in motion, countywide in every town and village. The County…

Rockland County's 13-member Historic Preservation Board can list a property on the County Register of Historic Places only with the owner's written consent, under Chapter 75A, and the…

Rockland County imposes a 3% tax on the rent charged for every hotel room occupancy countywide, under the Rockland County Hotel Room Occupancy Tax Law effective April 1, 2012. Guests…

Inside the Village of Spring Valley, Code § 23-10 declares any building with structural failure, fire damage, or unsafe egress a public nuisance that must be repaired, vacated or…

Rockland County requires anyone running a transient or door-to-door merchant business countywide to hold a license from the Director of Weights and Measures under Code Ch. 369…

Rockland County prohibits feeding waterfowl, meaning geese, brant, swans and river and sea ducks, on any County-owned land unless the Rockland County Parks Commission has designated…

Inside Rockland County's own parks, a dog may only be brought into an area designated for dogs, and even there must be on a leash no longer than six feet, unless it is in a designated…

Rockland County does not ban pet-store sales of dogs and cats, but its 'Protect our Pets Act' (Ch. 230, Art. III) bars pet dealers from sourcing animals from breeders with recent USDA…

Rockland County requires anyone who tows a passenger vehicle without the owner's consent to hold a nonconsensual-towing license from the Office of Consumer Protection. Chapter 394…

Anyone buying secondhand gold, silver, platinum or gems from the public in Rockland County needs a license from the county's Director of Consumer Protection before opening for…

Rockland County Code § 330-3 requires every person in control of a premises to separate curbside recyclables, newspaper, high-grade paper, corrugated paperboard, glass, plastic and…

Rockland County Code §§ 330-11 and 330-12 require stores that hand out plastic carryout bags to run an at-store take-back program: a visible collection bin near the entrance for the…

Dumping solid waste, recyclables or yard waste on someone else's property, along a roadside, or in a commercial dumpster you do not own is a violation of County Code § 350-14…

Rockland County treats bulky items like furniture, mattresses and small appliances as part of the regular solid waste stream, not a separate large-item pickup. Under County Code §…

Rockland County requires every household and business to arrange regular removal of its solid waste, yard waste, scrap metals and recyclables under County Code § 350-5. Service can…

County Code § 350-8 requires residents to keep yard waste, grass clippings, leaves and brush, separate from other trash and bag it in biodegradable leaf bags for curbside pickup…

County Code § 350-6 tells every household how to set out solid waste for pickup: it must go into a dumpster container, compactor or other suitable container placed at curbside or…

Waste haulers operating in Rockland County must hold a Department of Health permit before collecting anything at curbside. County Code § 350-12 bars unpermitted pickup, requires…

Businesses and industrial sites in Rockland County must separate their solid waste and place it into a dumpster container, compactor or other suitable container at curbside or another…

Rockland County does not issue building permits countywide. Under Code Chapter 23, the county's Office of Buildings and Codes issues them only inside the Village of Spring Valley…

Inside the Village of Spring Valley, Code § 23-6 keeps permitted work exposed until the county's Office of Buildings and Codes inspects it. The Director must inspect within five…

Rockland County's Governmental Green Building Act (Ch. 220, Art. II) requires every county-owned major facility project costing at least $1,000,000 to be designed and built to at least…

Chapter 224 requires carbon monoxide detectors and alarms in every one- and two-family home, mobile home, hotel, motel and multiple dwelling in Rockland County. Detectors must sit…

Rockland County adopts the National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) as 'the Code' and requires anyone who does electrical contracting work in the County, for the public at large on systems…

Inside the Village of Spring Valley, Code § 23-11 requires an operating permit before conducting open burning under Fire Code of New York State Section 307. The permit rule does not…

Anyone can file a building or fire-code complaint with Rockland County's Director of Buildings and Codes for property inside the Village of Spring Valley. Code § 23-13 gives the…

Rockland County Code § 261-3 makes it unlawful, countywide in every town and village, for landlords, brokers, and lenders to refuse housing, publish discriminatory ads, or steer…

Rockland County limits mobile home park evictions to six enumerated grounds under Code § 302-3: rent default, persistent late rent, illegal use of the premises, a law violation harmful…

Rockland County Code § 267-4 bans polystyrene foam cups, clamshells, trays and other disposable food service ware from County-owned and County-operated property under the 2008…

Riders under 14 must wear an ANSI- or Snell-certified helmet on foot-powered scooters, in-line skates, roller skates and skateboards anywhere in Rockland County, on public or private…

Rockland County bars possessing, carrying or drinking any liquor, wine, beer or other alcoholic beverage in a county park, unless it is sold in the park under a state license or the…

Rockland County bars loitering or remaining in any county park or park area, on foot or in a vehicle, after the posted closing hour without permission. The rule sits among a longer…

Before cutting into a highway, sidewalk, pavement or curbing to build or connect to the county sewer system, contractors and property owners in Rockland County must get permission…

Rockland County's solid waste law does not ban home composting. Code § 350-8D says the county's yard waste set-out rule "shall not prohibit private noncommercial composting of yard…

Rockland County requires a Park Commission permit for organized picnics and outings, and any permit issued under Chapter 315 is strictly limited to its stated terms. Violate a term and…

No parade, drill, march or procession may form or proceed on any Rockland County park or parkway without a Park Commission permit, and the same rule reaches meetings, speeches…

Rockland County parks are open to the public daily from sunrise to sunset for all uses, under Code § 315-30 as amended January 21, 2026. The Park Commission can permit different hours…

Rockland County's Drone Regulation Law confines recreational drone flights to a person's own private property, another owner's property with permission, and public property, other than…

Rockland County's drone law allows flying a drone in a public park unless the entity with jurisdiction over that park, including the County's own Division of Environmental Resources…