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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9043--A
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 11, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
 
        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  Vehicles are parked across sidewalks and blocking driveways as  well  as
     7  creating hazardous conditions on street corners. This has caused signif-
     8  icant  safety  issues,  refuse and sanitation problems, traffic hazards,
     9  congestion, air and noise pollution and other disturbances.  The village
    10  of Port Chester is the second most  dense  municipality  in  Westchester
    11  county  and  a  residential  parking permit program is a tool that would
    12  assist in mitigating this important issue.
    13    The legislature, therefore, hereby declares the necessity of this  act
    14  to authorize the village of Port Chester in the county of Westchester to
    15  adopt  a  residential  parking  permit  system  in  accordance  with the
    16  provisions of this act.
    17    § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    18  1640-s to read as follows:
    19    §  1640-s.  Residential parking system in the village of Port Chester.
    20  1.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any  law  to  the  contrary,  the
    21  village  board  of  trustees  of  the  village  of  Port Chester may, by
    22  adoption of a local law or ordinance, provide for a residential  parking
    23  permit  system  and  fix  and  require the payment of fees applicable to
    24  parking within the area in which such parking system  is  in  effect  in
    25  accordance with the provisions of this section.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14962-05-4
        S. 9043--A                          2
 
     1    2.  Such  residential  parking  permit  system may only be established
     2  within the area of the village which  shall  mean  that  area  generally
     3  bounded by the following:  All of that area beginning at Franklin Street
     4  and  the  westerly border of the village of Port Chester; thence running
     5  easterly  on  Franklin  Street  to  South  Regent Street; thence running
     6  northerly on South Regent Street to Westchester Avenue;  thence  running
     7  easterly on Westchester Avenue to Pearl Street; thence running southerly
     8  on  Pearl Street to Boston Post Road; thence running southerly on Boston
     9  Post Road to the southern border of the village of Port Chester;  thence
    10  running  .15  miles westerly and then northerly along the border between
    11  the village of Port Chester and the city of Rye  to  a  point  where  it
    12  intersects  with  Franklin  Street,  the  place  of beginning.   For the
    13  purposes of this subdivision, permit parking may be implemented on  both
    14  sides  of  any street whose center line is herein utilized as a boundary
    15  description; provided, however, that except for the reference  to  state
    16  highways  and  to  Westchester  Avenue  and  Pearl Street solely for the
    17  purposes of delineating the boundaries of the  area  described  in  this
    18  subdivision, the provisions of this section shall not apply to any state
    19  highway  maintained  by  the  state  nor  to Westchester Avenue or Pearl
    20  Street.
    21    3. Notwithstanding the foregoing,  no  permit  shall  be  required  on
    22  streets  or  portions of streets where the adjacent properties are zoned
    23  for commercial/retail use.
    24    4. The local law or ordinance providing for such  residential  parking
    25  system shall:
    26    (a)  set  forth  factors  necessitating  the enactment of such parking
    27  system; and
    28    (b) provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant  to  section  four
    29  hundred  four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit require-
    30  ment; and
    31    (c) provide the times of the day and days of  the  week  during  which
    32  permit requirements shall be in effect; and
    33    (d) make not less than fifteen percent of all spaces within the permit
    34  area  available to non-residents and shall provide short-term parking of
    35  not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area; and
    36    (e) provide the schedule of fees to be paid for such permits; and
    37    (f) provide that such fees shall be credited to the  general  fund  of
    38  the village.
    39    5.  No  ordinance  shall  be  adopted pursuant to this section until a
    40  public hearing thereon has been had in the same manner as  required  for
    41  public hearings on a local law pursuant to the municipal home rule law.
    42    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.