2010 New York Code
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 8 - RESPECTIVE POWERS OF STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Article 39 - (1640 - 1646) REGULATION OF TRAFFIC BY CITIES AND VILLAGES
1640-M - Pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Albany.

* §  1640-m.  Pilot  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 three-quarters of a 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 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  two  thousand  seven  hundred  fifty  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.
    * NB Expires and deemed Repealed 730 days after the implementation  of
  a local law or ordinance adopted by the city of Albany.