STATE OF NEW YORK
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9963
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to implementing
a residential parking system in the village of Port Chester
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that
2 there is a lack of parking for residents of the Washington Park neigh-
3 borhood in the village of Port Chester and residents have increasingly
4 found it difficult to park their automobiles overnight on the streets in
5 their own neighborhoods given the scarcity of available parking spaces.
6 The village of Port Chester is the second most dense municipality in
7 Westchester county and a resident parking permit program requiring a
8 permit for overnight street parking is a tool that would assist in miti-
9 gating this important issue.
10 The legislature, therefore, hereby declares the necessity of this act
11 to authorize the village of Port Chester in the county of Westchester to
12 adopt a residential parking permit system in accordance with the
13 provisions of this act.
14 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
15 1640-s to read as follows:
16 § 1640-s. Residential parking system in the village of Port Chester.
17 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the
18 village board of the village of Port Chester may, by adoption of a local
19 law or ordinance, provide for a residential parking permit system and
20 fix and require the payment of fees applicable to parking within the
21 area in which such parking system is in effect in accordance with the
22 provisions of this section.
23 2. Such residential parking permit system may only be established
24 within the specified area of the village of Port Chester which shall
25 mean that area generally bounded on the westerly side by the village
26 border, up to and including Franklin Street, east to and including South
27 Regent Street, running north to, but not including Westchester Ave, east
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to and not including Pearl Street, south to, but not including Boston
2 Post Road, to the southern border of the village.
3 3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no permit shall be required on
4 streets or portions of streets where the adjacent properties are zoned
5 for commercial/retail use.
6 4. The local law or ordinance providing for such residential parking
7 system shall:
8 (a) set forth factors necessitating the enactment of such parking
9 system; and
10 (b) provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four
11 hundred four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit require-
12 ment; and
13 (c) provide the times of the day and days of the week during which
14 permit requirements shall be in effect; and
15 (d) make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within the permit
16 area available to non-residents and shall provide short-term parking of
17 not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area; and
18 (e) provide the schedule of fees to be paid for such permits; and
19 (f) provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of
20 the city.
21 5. No ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section until a
22 public hearing thereon has been had in the same manner as required for
23 public hearings on a local law pursuant to the municipal home rule law.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
