Earlier this month, a challenge to the Town of Shelter Island (“Shelter Island”) short term rental law ordinance enacted in April 2017, amended May 2019 (“STRL”), came to an end – for now. Several years ago, the Shelter Island Town Board enacted its STRL to (i) impose licensing and advertising requirements for certain vacation rentals, (ii) prohibit certain vacation
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On February 26, 2016, we published our first Drone blog post: FROM PEEPING TOMS TO PEEPING DRONES: Help, Big Brother Government is Peeping in My Backyard. We advised that New York State is presently considering multiple bills all designed to regulate drones and drone users. Further, Suffolk County and the Town of Huntington adopted drone legislation specifically regulating private citizens’
Continue Reading Justice Brennan’s “Miraculous Tool” Has Arrived: The Government Drone Zone