Glen Cove, NY Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Section 199-7 sits in Article I of Chapter 199, Nuisances, an article adopted August 25, 1981 as Chapter 62 of the 1981 Code and carried forward with amendments noted where applicable. As amended February 13, 2007, the section splits the offense into three separate subsections: expectorating in a public place is forbidden unless done into a receptacle provided for that purpose, urinating in a public place is unlawful, and defecating in a public place is unlawful. It sits alongside older 1981 sanitary-code holdovers in the same article, including a ban on stagnant water that breeds mosquito larvae under Section 199-5 and a restriction on discharging smoke, gases and wastes under Section 199-6, all enforced by the same Health Officer and Building Department Administrator named in Section 199-3.

Section 199-7 is a flat prohibition, not a permit-based standard: there is no exception for private events, no time-of-day carve-out, and no distance test the way the noise chapter uses. Section 199-9 sets the penalty for the whole article, including Section 199-7, by cross-referencing Chapter 1's General Penalty article rather than printing its own fine schedule; that citywide default, Section 1-14, applies whenever a chapter does not specifically set its own fine, and Chapter 199 does not.