N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1640-m: Residential parking permit system in the city of Albany

§ 1640-m. Residential parking permit system in the city of Albany. 1.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the city of

Albany may, by adoption of a local law or ordinance, provide for a

residential parking permit system and fix and require the payment of

fees applicable to parking within certain areas of the city or as

delineated by the common council of the city of Albany in accordance

with the provisions of this section.

2. Such residential parking permit system may only be established

within the areas of the city of Albany described as follows: an area

within a one mile radius of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State

Plaza. The permitted streets within this area shall be described in a

local law or ordinance adopted by the common council of the city of

Albany pursuant to this section.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no permit shall be

required on streets where the adjacent properties are zoned for

commercial, office and/or retail use.

4. The local law or ordinance providing for such residential parking

permit system shall:

a. Set forth the specific factors which necessitate the implementation

of said system and shall include, but not be limited to, findings of

facts as to the existence of such traffic hazards, congestion and air

and noise pollution within any such areas;

b. Provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four

hundred four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit

requirement;

c. Provide the times of the day and the days of the week during which

permit requirements shall be in effect;

d. Make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within the permit

area or areas available to nonresidents which shall provide short-term

parking of not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area or

areas;

e. Make not more than three thousand five hundred of the approximately

nine thousand residential spaces within the permit area or areas

available for residential parking by permit;

f. Provide the schedule of fees to be paid for residential permits;

and

g. Provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of the

city of Albany.

5. No local law or ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section

until a public hearing thereon has been held by the common council of

the city of Albany concerning the designation of the certain area or

areas in which said parking permit system is to be implemented.