Authorizes the city of New York to provide for a residential parking permit system in Queens Community Boards 3 and 4 to reduce hazards and pollution levels.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11589
IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gonzalez-Ro-
jas) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the public authorities
law, in relation to authorizing a residential parking permit system in
the city of New York; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1640-t to read as follows:
3 § 1640-t. Residential parking system in the city of New York. 1.
4 Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the city of
5 New York may, by adoption of a local law or ordinance, provide for a
6 residential parking permit system and fix and require the payment of
7 fees applicable to parking within the area of the city in which such
8 parking system is in effect in accordance with the provisions of this
9 section.
10 2. Such residential parking permit system may only be established
11 within the city of New York neighborhoods of Queens Community Board
12 three and Queens Community Board four.
13 3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no permit shall be required on
14 streets where the adjacent properties are zoned for commercial or retail
15 use or in metered parking spaces.
16 4. The local law or ordinance providing for such residential parking
17 system shall:
18 (a) set forth the factors necessitating the enactment of such parking
19 system;
20 (b) provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four
21 hundred four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit require-
22 ment;
23 (c) provide the times of the day and days of the week during which
24 permit requirements shall be in effect;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within the permit
2 area or areas available to nonresidents and shall provide for short-term
3 parking of not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area;
4 (e) provide the schedule of fees to be paid for such permits; and
5 (f) provide that such fees excluding administrative expenses, shall be
6 remitted by the city of New York to the applicable mass transit agency
7 on a quarterly basis to be deposited in the general transportation
8 account of the New York city transportation assistance fund established
9 pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-i of the public authorities
10 law.
11 5. No ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section until a
12 public hearing thereon has been had in the same manner as required for
13 public hearings on a local law pursuant to the municipal home rule law.
14 6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any state highway
15 maintained by the state.
16 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1270-i of the public authorities law, as
17 added by section 4 of part NNN of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, is
18 amended to read as follows:
19 1. The authority shall create and establish a fund to be known as the
20 "New York city transportation assistance fund" which shall be kept sepa-
21 rate from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys of the
22 authority. The New York city transportation assistance fund shall
23 consist of three separate accounts: (i) the "subway action plan
24 account"; (ii) the "outer borough transportation account"; and (iii) the
25 "general transportation account". The authority shall make deposits in
26 the subway action plan account of the moneys received by it pursuant to
27 the provisions of subdivision (c) of section twelve hundred
28 ninety-nine-H of the tax law in accordance with the provisions thereof,
29 shall make deposits in the outer borough transportation account of the
30 moneys received by it pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (d) of
31 section twelve hundred ninety-nine-H of the tax law in accordance with
32 the provisions thereof, and shall make deposits in the general transpor-
33 tation account of the moneys received by it pursuant to the provisions
34 of subdivision (e) of section twelve hundred ninety-nine-H of the tax
35 law in accordance with the provisions thereof, [and] pursuant to the
36 provisions of section eleven hundred eleven-C of the vehicle and traffic
37 law, and pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (f) of subdivision four
38 of section sixteen hundred forty-t of the vehicle and traffic law.
39 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
40 1, 2030 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
41 repealed; provided, however, that any such local law or ordinance
42 enacted pursuant to this act shall remain in full force and effect only
43 until December 1, 2030.
