New York § 7-706 - 7-706Method of procedure
Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 7-706 — 7-706Method of procedure, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 7-706. 7-706Method 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.
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What does New York Consolidated Laws § 7-706 cover?
Section 7-706 ("7-706Method of procedure") is part of the New York Consolidated Laws, the codified statutory law of New York. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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