N.Y. Village Law § 7-706: Method of procedure

§ 7-706 Method of procedure. 1. The board of trustees shall provide

for the manner in which such regulations, restrictions and the

boundaries of such districts including any amendments thereto shall be

determined, established and enforced. However, no such regulations,

restrictions or boundaries shall become effective until after a public

hearing in relation thereto, at which the public shall have an

opportunity to be heard. At least ten days notice of the time and place

of such hearing shall be published in a paper of general circulation in

such village.

2. Service of written notice. At least ten days prior to the date of

the public hearing, written notice of any proposed regulations,

restrictions or boundaries of such districts, including amendments

thereto, affecting property within five hundred feet of the following

shall be served personally or by mail by the village upon each person or

persons as listed below:

(a) the property of the housing authority erecting or owning a housing

project authorized under the public housing law; upon the executive

director of such housing authority and the chief executive officer of

the municipality providing financial assistance thereto;

(b) the boundary of a city, village or town; upon the clerk thereof;

(c) the boundary of a county; upon the clerk of the board of

supervisors or other person performing like duties;

(d) the boundary of a state park or parkway; upon the regional state

park commission having jurisdiction over such state park or parkway.

3. Public hearing. The public, including those served notice pursuant

to subdivision two of this section, shall have the opportunity to be

heard at the public hearing. Those parties set forth in paragraphs (a),

(b), (c) and (d) of subdivision two of this section, however, shall not

have the right of review by a court as hereinafter provided.

4. Additional requirements. The procedural requirements set forth

herein shall be in addition to the requirements of the provisions of

sections two hundred thirty-nine-l and two hundred thirty-nine-m of the

general municipal law relating to review by a county planning board or

agency or regional planning council; the provisions of the state

environmental quality review act under article eight of the

environmental conservation law and its implementing regulations which

are codified in part six hundred seventeen of title six of the New York

codes, rules and regulations and any other general laws relating to land

use and any amendments thereto.

5. Filing. Every zoning law and every amendment thereto (excluding any

map incorporated therein) adopted pursuant to the provisions of this

chapter shall be entered in the minutes of the village board and a copy,

summary or abstract thereof (exclusive of any map incorporated therein)

shall be published once in the official newspaper and a copy of such

local law or amendment together with a summary or abstract of any map

incorporated therein shall be posted conspicuously at or near the main

entrance to the office of the village clerk and affidavits of the

publication and posting thereof shall be filed with the village clerk.

Such minutes shall describe and refer to any map adopted in connection

with such local law or amendment.

6. Map. Each village clerk shall maintain every map adopted in

connection with a zoning local law or amendment.

7. Effective date. Such local law shall take effect upon filing in the

office of the secretary of state, but such local law or amendment shall

take effect from the date of its service as against a person served

personally with a copy thereof, certified by the village clerk; and

showing the date of its passage and entry in the minutes.