STATE OF NEW YORK
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6931
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 27, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
the city of New York to establish a pilot residential parking permit
system within a two mile radius of LaGuardia airport; 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-q to read as follows:
3 § 1640-q. Pilot residential parking permit system in the city of New
4 York. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the city
5 of New York shall, within one year of the effective date of this
6 section, upon adoption of a local law or ordinance, establish and
7 provide for the operation of a residential parking permit system, and
8 fix and require the payment of fees applicable to parking within the
9 areas in which such parking system is in effect in accordance with the
10 provisions of this section.
11 2. Such residential parking permit system shall be operated by the
12 city of New York for a period of one year after it is implemented.
13 Furthermore, such residential parking permit system shall only be estab-
14 lished within the areas of the borough of Queens described as follows:
15 an area within a two mile radius of LaGuardia airport. The permitted
16 streets within this area shall be described in a local law or ordinance
17 adopted by the council of the city of New York pursuant to this section.
18 3. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, no
19 permit shall be required on streets where the adjacent properties are
20 zoned for commercial office and/or retail use.
21 4. The local law or ordinance providing for such residential parking
22 permit system shall:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) set forth factors necessitating the enactment of such parking
2 system;
3 (b) provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four
4 hundred four-a of this chapter, or those possessing a special vehicle
5 identification parking permit issued in accordance with section twelve
6 hundred three-a of this chapter, shall be exempt from any permit
7 requirement;
8 (c) provide the times of day and the days of the week during which
9 permit requirements shall be in effect;
10 (d) make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within each permit
11 area available to nonresidents and shall provide short-term parking of
12 not less then ninety minutes in duration in such areas;
13 (e) provide the schedule of fees to be paid for such permits; and
14 (f) provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of
15 the city of New York.
16 5. No local law or ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section
17 until a public hearing thereon has been had in the same manner as
18 required for public hearings on a local law pursuant to the municipal
19 home rule law.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
21 deemed repealed:
22 (a) 1 year after it shall have taken effect, if the city of New York
23 shall have failed to establish a residential parking permit system
24 pursuant to section 1640-q of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
25 section one of this act, within 1 year of the effective date of this
26 act; or
27 (b) 1 year after the date the residential parking permit system shall
28 have been implemented in accordance with section 1640-q of the vehicle
29 and traffic law, as added by section one of this act.
30 (c) The city of New York shall notify the legislative bill drafting
31 commission upon the date of the implementation of the residential park-
32 ing permit system in such city in order that such commission may main-
33 tain an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of
34 the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the
35 provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
36 public officers law.