Southampton Village, NY Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 74-2.1 of the Southampton Village Code is a narrow exception to the Village's littering ban. Section 74-2 prohibits anyone from casting, throwing, placing or depositing leaves, along with paper, handbills, debris, rubbish and refuse, in or upon any street, lane, alley or public place in the Village of Southampton. The fall leaf pickup section carves out one group: the owner of property abutting a public street, or an employee of that owner, who places leaves coming from that property for Village pickup.

The code does not print calendar dates. Leaves go out only during the period of time established by the Superintendent of Public Works for fall pickup of leaves by the Village. The placement rules are specific: along the shoulder of the street, not in the roadway, and in either long, narrow piles or biodegradable paper bags. Those are the only two forms the section names.

Independent contractors are excluded by design. Subsection B applies the § 74-2 littering prohibition to any person, including an independent contractor, who places leaves on the right-of-way of a public street. Subsection C explains the intent: pickup is for leaves placed by the abutting landowner or an employee such as a caretaker, and an independent contractor is expected to dispose of leaves at a disposal site rather than leaving them for the Village.

The same landscaping work is regulated elsewhere. Chapter 73 requires landscapers to register annually before operating in the Village, and § 78-4 prohibits gas-powered leaf blowers except for emergency response or cleanup after a major storm during a state of emergency declared by the Mayor. Chapter 41 separately makes every landowner responsible for controlling brush, grass, hedges and weeds and the accumulation of rubbish, and bars growth of brush, grass or weeds above five inches between the property line and the center of an abutting street or road.