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E.W. keeps code, permits solicitation Pest control company efforts can go forward as village studies issue BY TOM M CC A RT HY The Village of East Williston has decided to allow a company to solicit in the village under special rules without amending its code for now. “There is no code change at this time,” Mayor Bonnie Parente said. “But we may have to revisit our code.” East Williston is one of many communities on the North Shore of Long Island reevaluating their solicitation codes after legal action in a nearby village. Aptive Environmental, a Utah-based pest control company dependent on door-to-door solicitation, sued the Village of Floral Park in August 2018 after the village did not amend its code preventing commercial solicitation. Aptive’s legal counsel called the solicitation ban a “flagrant violation of the First and 14th Amendments,” according to court records.
In its settlement, Floral Park agreed to pay $15,000. The village has since changed its code from a complete ban on commercial solicitation to requiring soliciting companies to provide detailed information in order to obtain a license. Parente said the legal counsel for Aptive planned on pursuing litigation against East Williston as well. Village code currently allows solicitation after the company receives a permit from the village. “Instead of sitting back” and entering a lawsuit, Parente said the village decided to reach a resolution allowing solicitation without changing the village code. Jeremy Fielding, an attorney from Lynn Pinker Coxx Hurst representing Aptive Environmental, said East Williston’s village code on solicitation requires a $5,000 bond with a permit. “We characterize that as a ban,” he said. Continued on Page 82
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NYU LONG ISLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Kenneth G. Langone, chair of the board of trustees of NYU Langone Health, spoke during the inaugural “White Coat Ceremony” at NYU Long Island School of Medicine.
Tuition-free med school welcomes its first class BY TOM MCCARTHY
class of students this week. “NYU Long Island School of Medicine is the realization The newly accredited of a bold vision to make medituition-free NYU Long Island cal school attainable without School of Medicine in Mine- financial hardship to attract ola opened its doors to its first the brightest and best students
from diverse walks of life into the medical profession,” said Andrew Hamilton, president of New York University. The school, based in NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, Continued on Page 83
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