Southampton Village, NY Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Chapter 74 of the Southampton Village Code, titled Littering, carries the working rules for household trash. Section 74-3 requires a person with permanent quarters on any street to keep a private receptacle at the rear of the property rather than use the receptacles provided for the public along the street. Sections 74-4 and 74-5 then govern what happens to the material.

Section 74-4 requires those persons to cause all discarded paper and other material capable of being moved or strewn by wind or other agency to be securely confined in the receptacle, so that it is not overturned, dumped or otherwise treated in a way that lets the contents escape or fall out. Section 74-5, amended by L.L. No. 1-1982, requires the receptacles to be regularly emptied and removed either to the Town Dump or to another place of disposal that eliminates the material permanently from the limits of the Village of Southampton. The duty falls on the person, not on a Village crew, and the section names no collection weekday.

Other sections in the code cover specific pickup situations. Fall leaf pickup under § 74-2.1 is limited to abutting owners and their employees during the period set by the Superintendent of Public Works. For nonresidential property in the VB, HB, OD and HRO districts, § 64-3 requires trash to be held in a secure covered container whose cover stays closed, screened by a closed fence enclosure at least six feet high. A hauler moving garbage through a public street needs a license from the Board of Trustees under § 64-5, at a fee of $25 per year under § 64-6, and the Board of Trustees can cancel it if the licensee scatters glass or other waste or uses an open receptacle.