Showing ordinances that apply to White Lake, NY
White Lake is an unincorporated community (population 121) in Oneida County, New York. Because White Lake is not an incorporated city, it does not have its own municipal code. Instead, Oneida County ordinances apply directly to properties here. The property blight rules below are the ones that govern your area.
Utica and Rome enforce aggressive anti-blight programs targeting vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. Utica Urban Renewal Agency handles demolition and receivership.
Utica Codified Ordinances and Rome City Code adopt NY Property Maintenance Code (19 NYCRR Part 1226) plus local amendments. Violations include peeling paint, broken windows, collapsed porches, overgrown vegetation, accumulated debris. NY RPAPL §1308 requires mortgagees to maintain vacant/abandoned residential properties (zombie property law). Oneida County Land Bank (Greater Mohawk Valley Land Bank) acquires tax-foreclosed blighted properties for rehabilitation or demolition.
Civil penalties up to 1,000 dollars per violation per day; liens for city-performed abatement; receivership for severe neglect.
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