Southampton Village, NY Hurricane Preparedness: Storm Debris (2026)

The 60-day rule is § 49-9(G) of Chapter 49, the Village of Southampton Coastal Erosion Hazard Area Law, adopted 12-9-1988 as L.L. No. 7-1988 under Article 34 of the New York State Environmental Conservation Law. It sits in Article III, Area Restrictions, in the list of restrictions that apply to regulated activities within structural hazard areas. The trigger is structural damage from sudden unanticipated bluff edge failure, dune migration, or wave or ice action. Once that event happens, the clock is 60 days.

Where the rule applies depends on the map. Section 49-5 defines a structural hazard area as shorelands landward of natural protective features with shorelines receding at a long-term average recession rate of one foot or more per year, and the inland boundary is measured at 40 times that annual recession rate. Under § 49-6 the Coastal Erosion Hazard Area is drawn on the final map prepared by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Neighboring provisions shape how cleanup is done. Section 49-5 lists normal beach grooming or cleanup among unregulated activities, and § 49-7 requires a coastal erosion management permit only for regulated activities, so unregulated work needs none. Dumping, grading, excavating and filling are listed as regulated activities. Section 49-9(H) bars grading, excavation or other soil disturbance in a structural hazard area that directs surface water runoff over a bluff face. Section 49-9(F) requires movable structures to be removed before any part of the structure is within 10 feet of the receding edge, and puts that duty on the last owner of record on the latest assessment roll unless a removal agreement is attached to the permit.

The rule is a removal deadline, not a pickup service. Section 49-9(G) does not name who hauls the debris, and enforcement sits with the Administrator under § 49-28. The only curbside pickup provision found in the code, § 74-2.1, covers fall leaves placed along the shoulder by the abutting owner or the owner's employee, while § 74-2 bars depositing debris on streets and public places.