People v. Van Houten

The village of Nyack is a municipal corporation organized under the general village law of 1870, having a police justice. Section 3, tit. 3, chap. 291, of the Laws of 1870, provides, among other things, as follows: ,

“The trustees shall have power as to acts and matters within the corporate bounds to make, publish and amend and repeal rules, ordinances and by-laws for the following purposes: ■ To prevent incumbering the streets, squares, sidewalks, crosswalks, lanes and alleys with any material whatever.” i

And by the same section the trustees are given power to prescribe penalties for a…