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Code Quiz Answers: How Did You Fare?

How did you do on our quiz about town and village codes? Find the answers here.

We recently posted a quiz . Here are the answers. How did you do? Let us know in the comments.

Which municipality was the first of the three to adopt a noise ordinance, in 1962?

  • Westhampton Beach Village
  • Quogue Village
  • Southampton Town

The Quogue Village _____ must live within the village, within 90 days after taking the job.

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  • Police Chief
  • Code enforcement officer
  • Building inspector
  • Administrator (chapter 9, section 2)

“No person shall use a _____ in the waters adjacent to the Village of Westhampton Beach for a distance of 1,500 feet from the Village boundary unless licensed as herein provided.”

  • Boat
  • Surfboard (chapter 153, section 3)
  • Skin board
  • Scuba tank

Full-time members of the Quogue Police Department must live in _____.

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  • Suffolk County
  • Southampton Town
  • Southampton Town, west of Shinnecock Canal (chapter 47, section 2)
  • Quogue

Village code sets the salary of the Westhampton Beach Village mayor at _____?

  • $0
  • $7,500
  • $11,000
  • $16,000

“The owner and operator of any ____ shall be of good moral character and a fit and proper person to hold a license.”

  • Bar
  • Clothing shop
  • Billiard room (Southampton Town chapter 94, seciton 4)
  • Automobile

“The ____ shall investigate, study and authenticate all historic documents, as hereinabove defined, and, after determining their relevance, shall investigate the means and cost of restoring, preserving or reproducing and displaying."

  • Town Historian
  • Town Clerk (chapter 194, section 3)
  • Landmarks and Historic Districts Board
  • Citizen Advisory Committees

“The number of registered guests occupying [a bed-and-breakfast] at any one time shall not exceed _____”

  • 8
  • 10 (Southampton Town chapter 330, section 213)
  • 12
  • 15

Children under the age of _____ are required to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle in Southampton Town.

  • 10
  • 14 (chapter 312, section 84)
  • 16
  • 18

“Whenever this chapter requires any person to file documents with the Town Clerk, such filing shall be made in duplicate. The Town Clerk shall stamp both copies with the date received, retain one copy, and forward the second copy immediately to the ___"

  • Supervisor's Office
  • Attorney's Office
  • Board of Ethics (chapter 23, section 3)
  • Police Department
  • Note: In hindsight, this question wasn't very specific as it referenced "this chapter" without specificying which chapter. To the one very ethical person who got the question correct: nice job. To everyone else, we apologize for the vague question.


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