Greenburgh, NY Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)
Key Facts
- Responsible parties
- Owner, lessee, contractor, tenant
- Correction notice
- 14 days to remedy
- Enforcement
- DPW Commissioner, Building Inspector, Police
- First-offense penalty
- Up to $500, 3 months jail
- Repeat offense
- Up to $1,000, misdemeanor
- Uncorrected cost
- Billed against the land
Summary
Greenburgh bars owners, tenants and contractors from letting solid waste, discarded matter or auto parts pile up on any lot, and separately bans throwing or dumping waste on someone else's land, streets or rights-of-way. A first conviction under Greenburgh Code § 410-9.C carries up to a $500 fine and three months in jail.
A. The owner, lessee, contractor, tenant or other person having management or control of or occupying any lot or plot of land in the Town, excluding any location designated by the Town Board, Commissioner of Public Works or the Westchester County Department of Health for such purposes, shall keep such land at all times free and clear of any accumulation of solid waste or discarded matter of any type, including automobile parts and other machinery, except such as may be deposited for collection and disposal as provided for by this chapter. ... C. Any violation of the provisions of this chapter, except § 410-5, and except § 410-4C as it pertains to leaves, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and/or imprisonment not to exceed three months. Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. A second and subsequent violation for the same offense shall be a misdemeanor and be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4570580; v39 updated 2025-10-22; through 10-22-2025).
Full Breakdown
A makes any owner, lessee, contractor, tenant or other person controlling or occupying a lot responsible for keeping it free of accumulated solid waste or discarded matter, including automobile parts and machinery, except waste actually staged for regular collection. Subsection B goes further and bars anyone from depositing, throwing, casting or burying ashes, solid waste, grass or tree cuttings, leaves, offal or discarded matter of any type on any lot in the Town, whether or not it belongs to them, with a narrow carve-out for small, screened compost heaps kept by a home gardener on their own property.
Subsection C separately prohibits throwing or laying waste on any street, sidewalk or right-of-way, and Subsection H bars abandoning items such as shopping carts, baskets, crates or cartons in any street or public place. Enforcement runs through the Commissioner of Public Works, the Building Inspector and any sworn Police Officer, each of whom can issue a violation notice giving the responsible party 14 days to correct the condition before the Town corrects it and bills the cost against the land. A, B, E, F, H and I all draws the same base fine and jail exposure.
Violations & Fines
A first conviction for illegal dumping under Chapter 410 carries a fine of up to $500 and/or up to three months in jail under § 410-9.C. A second violation for the same offense within the enforcement period becomes a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or up to six months in jail, and each day the dumped material remains counts as a separate offense.
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