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 Brookhaven
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 77. Nature Preserves

  § 77-11. Prohibitions.  

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  • The following acts are expressly prohibited in Town nature preserves:
    A. 
    Use of a nature preserve outside of the hours of operation as noted in § 77-9.
    B. 
    Use of any motorized vehicle or self-propelled wheeled vehicle within a nature preserve, except for official vehicles of the Town of Brookhaven or other public agency.
    C. 
    Camping, fishing, bathing and swimming unless authorized by the Town of Brookhaven.
    D. 
    Kindling, building, maintaining or use of a fire.
    E. 
    Littering, dumping or burial of any refuse, rubbish, debris, yard waste, fill, soil or vehicles as defined in Chapter 45 of the Town Code.
    F. 
    The allowance of any dog, cat, livestock, horses or other non-native wildlife to enter within, into or onto a Town nature preserve.
    G. 
    The use of motorized or unmotorized watercraft on or within any body of surface water within a Town nature preserve unless specifically authorized by the Town of Brookhaven.
    H. 
    The injury, destruction, defacement, displacement, removal, filling in, raising, or tampering with of any Town-owned drive, path, walkway, boardwalk, structures, equipment, vehicle or signs or any wildlife, vegetation, natural features, surface water, cultural resources or any other ecological feature within a Town nature preserve.
    I. 
    The carrying or use of explosives, firearms, shotguns, rifles, handguns, BB or pellet guns and slingshots, any other weapon in which the propelling force is a spring, elastic material or compressed air or gas or archery equipment, except by a police officer or peace officer.
    J. 
    Hunting and trapping.
    K. 
    The feeding of wild animals or the feeding and sheltering of domestic animals.
    [Added 9-6-2005 by L.L. No. 23-2005, effective 9-12-2005]
    Editor's Note: This local law also redesignated former Subsections K and L as L and M, respectively.
    L. 
    Any other use designated by resolution of the Town Board for a particular site.
    M. 
    Where appropriate, the Town Board may, by resolution, permit one or more of the uses enumerated above.