Hempstead, NY Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

' The prohibition applies inside Town and special-district public parking fields, not on Town streets or sidewalks generally, which this code does not separately regulate for loitering. The same subsection of § 80-8 also bars using a parking field as a through-traffic shortcut, distributing handbills, bringing an unconfined animal, and, at § 80-8A(4), soliciting alms, contributions or conducting business without Town Board permission. A related provision, § 80-7, separately penalizes defacing, injuring or littering parking-field property, and § 80-10 defines a broader parking-field disorderly-conduct offense covering threatening or abusive language, obscene acts, throwing missiles, fighting, and disobeying a police or Public Safety officer's lawful order, punishable by up to $250 or 15 days in jail under § 80-10B.

Absent a specific fine in Chapter 80, an offense against the loitering clause of § 80-8 carries the chapter's general penalty of up to $750 under § 80-11, collected through the District Court of Nassau County.