Shelter Island, NY — the municipal code, in plain language

Current through 2026-03-24. Official source: https://ecode360.com/SH0746

Every town writes its own rules, and Shelter Island's live in its municipal code — 68 chapters covering day-to-day questions like fences, parking, pets, permits and property upkeep. Below is the full map of what the code covers.

What's in the Shelter Island code

• Ch 1 — General Provisions (§ 1-1 – § 1-13)
• Ch 2 — Videoconferencing (§ 2-1 – § 2-2)
• Ch 3 — Assessor (§ 3-1 – § 3-4)
• Ch 5 — Building Energy Benchmarking (§ 5-1 – § 5-9)
• Ch 8 — Ethics, Code of (§ 8-1 – § 8-23)
• Ch 13 — Local Laws, Adoption of (§ 13-1 – § 13-5)
• Ch 16 — Officers and Employees (§ 16-1 – § 16-12)
• Ch 18 — Personnel Policies (§ 18-1 – § 18-39)
• Ch 19 — Police Commissioners, Board of (§ 19-1 – § 19-3)
• Ch 20 — Policemen (§ 20-1 – § 20-14)
• Ch 24 — Alarm Systems (§ 24-1 – § 24-6)
• Ch 26 — Appearance Tickets (§ 26-1 – § 26-3)
• Ch 28 — Applications (§ 28-1 – § 28-8)
• Ch 33 — Assemblies, Outdoor (§ 33-1 – § 33-7)
• Ch 36 — Beaches and Parks (§ 36-1 – § 36-15)
• Ch 37 — Beaches, Vehicles on (§ 37-1 – § 37-9)
• Ch 38 — Bingo (§ 38-1 – § 38-3)
• Ch 40 — Boats (§ 40-1 – § 40-12)
• Ch 43 — Building Construction (§ 43-1 – § 43-17)
• Ch 45 — Buildings, Unsafe (§ 45-1 – § 45-8)
• Ch 47 — Burning, Open (§ 47-1 – § 47-12)
• Ch 47A — Cannabis (§ 47A-1 – § 47A-5)
• Ch 48 — Cell Towers (§ 48-1 – § 48-16)
• Ch 50 — Community Preservation Fund (§ 50-1 – § 50-34)
• Ch 51 — Community Housing (§ 51-1 – § 51-25)
• Ch 52 — Community Housing Fund (§ 52-1 – § 52-7)
• Ch 53 — Docks (§ 53-1 – § 53-18)
• Ch 55 — Dogs (§ 55-1 – § 55-36)
• Ch 60 — Environmental Quality Review (§ 60-1 – § 60-15)
• Ch 62 — Excavations (§ 62-1 – § 62-20)
• Ch 63 — Excavation of Highways (§ 63-1 – § 63-7)
• Ch 65 — Filming (§ 65-1 – § 65-11)
• Ch 67 — Fertilizer (§ 67-1 – § 67-4)
• Ch 68 — Flood Damage Prevention (§ 68-1 – § 68-23)
• Ch 71 — Games of Chance (§ 71-1 – § 71-3)
• Ch 73 — Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse (§ 73-1 – § 73-8)
• Ch 74 — Geothermal Systems (§ 74-1 – § 74-6)
• Ch 77 — Historic Preservation (§ 77-1 – § 77-3)
• Ch 79 — Home Improvement Contractors (§ 79-1 – § 79-44)
• Ch 82 — Irrigation Regulations (§ 82-1 – § 82-14)
• Ch 83 — Lighting (§ 83-1 – § 83-10)
• Ch 84 — Littering (§ 84-1 – § 84-3)
• Ch 86 — Lost or Unclaimed Property (§ 86-1 – § 86-6)
• Ch 88 — Low-Nitrogen Sanitary System Rebate Program (§ 88-1 – § 88-4)
• Ch 90 — Moorings (§ 90-1 – § 90-13)
• Ch 91 — Nature Preserve System (§ 91-1 – § 91-12)
• Ch 92 — Noise (§ 92-1 – § 92-10)
• Ch 93 — Notification of Defects (§ 93-1 – § 93-4)
• Ch 94 — Peddling and Soliciting (§ 94-1 – § 94-4)
• Ch 96 — Pesticide Control (§ 96-1 – § 96-3)
• Ch 100 — Records, Public Access to (§ 100-1 – § 100-20)
• Ch 105 — Rental of Real Property (§ 105-1 – § 105-60)
• Ch 106 — Rights-Of-Way and Regulated Sidewalk Areas (§ 106-1 – § 106-7)
• Ch 108 — Shellfish (§ 108-1 – § 108-9)
• Ch 109 — Site Plan Review (§ 109-1 – § 109-21)
• Ch 110 — Storm Sewers (§ 110-1 – § 110-41)
• Ch 111 — Subdivision of Land (§ 111-1 – § 111-46)
• Ch 113 — Swimming Pools (§ 113-1 – § 113-10)
• Ch 115 — Taxation (§ 115-1 – § 115-26)
• Ch 116 — Tobacco, Cannabis and Public Smoking (§ 116-1 – § 116-30)
• Ch 117 — Trees (§ 117-1 – § 117-12)
• Ch 118 — Trespassing (§ 118-1 – § 118-4)
• Ch 124 — Vehicles, Abandoned (§ 124-1 – § 124-10)
• Ch 126 — Vehicles and Traffic (§ 126-1 – § 126-11)
• Ch 128 — Waterways (§ 128-1 – § 128-8)
• Ch 129 — Wetlands (§ 129-1 – § 129-16)
• Ch 133 — Zoning (§ 133-1 – § 133-41)
• Ch DL — Disposition List (§ DL-1)