Title VIL, Village

§ 7-701 Transfer of development rights; definitions; conditions; procedures. 1. As used in this section: a. "Development rights" shall mean the rights permitted to a lot, parcel, or area of land under a zoning law respecting permissible use, area, density, bulk or height of impr…

§ 7-702 Districts. For any or all of said purposes the board of trustees may divide the village into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this article; and within such districts it may regulate and restrict the erecti…

§ 7-703 Incentive zoning; definitions, purpose, conditions, procedures. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: a. "Incentives or bonuses" shall mean adjustments to the permissible population density, area, height, open space, use, or other provisions of a zoning local law for …

§ 7-703-a Planned unit development zoning districts. A village legislative body is hereby authorized to enact, as part of its zoning local law, procedures and requirements for the establishment and mapping of planned unit development zoning districts. Planned unit development di…

§ 7-704 Purposes in view. Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, floods and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light an…

§ 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, restricti…

§ 7-708 Changes. Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from time to time be amended. An amendment shall be effected by a simple majority vote of the board of trustees, except that an amendment shall require the approval of at least two-thirds of the members of the bo…

§ 7-709. Exemption of lots shown on approved subdivision plats. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the provisions of a zoning local law hereafter adopted, or of a change or amendment thereto, which provisions: (…

§ 7-710 Adoption of first zoning local law. 1. In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by this article, the board of trustees of any village shall appoint a commission to be known as the zoning commission to recommend the boundaries of the various original districts and…

§ 7-712 Zoning board of appeals. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Use variance" shall mean the authorization by the zoning board of appeals for the use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed or is prohibited by the applicable zoning regulations. (b) "A…

§ 7-712-a Board of appeals procedure. 1. Meetings, minutes, records. Meetings of such board of appeals shall be open to the public to the extent provided in article seven of the public officers law. Such board of appeals shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of…

§ 7-712-b Permitted action by board of appeals. 1. Orders, requirements, decisions, interpretations, determinations. The board of appeals may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision, interpretation or determination appealed from and sh…

§ 7-712-c Article seventy-eight proceeding. 1. Application to supreme court by aggrieved persons. Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the board of appeals or any officer, department, board or bureau of the village, may apply to the supreme co…

§ 7-714. Remedies. In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained; or any building, structure or land is used, or any land is divided into lots, blocks or sites in violation of this act, or of any local law o…

§ 7-716 Conflict with other laws. Wherever the regulations made under authority of this act require a greater width of size of yards or courts, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impos…

§ 7-718 Planning board; creation, appointment. 1. Authorization. The village board of trustees of each village is hereby authorized by local law to create a planning board consisting of five or seven members. Members and the chairperson of such planning board shall be appointed …

§ 7-722 Village comprehensive plan. 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds and determines that: (a) Significant decisions and actions affecting the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the state and its communities…

§ 7-724 Official maps, changes in official map; notice of hearing. Every village may by resolution of its board of trustees establish an official map of the village showing the streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law. Drainage systems may…

§ 7-725-a Site plan review. 1. Definition of site plan. As used in this section the term "site plan" shall mean a rendering, drawing, or sketch prepared to specifications and containing necessary elements, as set forth in the applicable local law, which shows the arrangement, la…

§ 7-725-b Approval of special use permits. 1. Definition of special use permit. As used in this section the term "special use permit" shall mean an authorization of a particular land use which is permitted in a zoning local law, subject to requirements imposed by such local law …

§ 7-728 Subdivision review; approval of plats; development of filed plats. 1. Purpose. For the purpose of providing for the future growth and development of the village and affording adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, safety,…

§ 7-730 Subdivision review; approval of plats; additional requisites. 1. Purpose. Before the approval by the planning board of a plat showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, or the approval of a plat already filed in the office of the clerk of the cou…

§ 7-732 Subdivision review; record of plats. 1. Filing of plat with county clerk or register. (a) No plat of a subdivision of land showing lots, blocks or sites, shall be filed or recorded in the office of the county clerk or register until it has been approved by a planning boa…

§ 7-734 Buildings in streets; permits; hearings; review. For the purpose of preserving the integrity of such official map or plan no permit shall hereafter be issued for any building in the bed of any street or highway shown or laid out on such map or plan, provided, however, th…

§ 7-736 Construction of municipal utility in streets; permits for erection of buildings; appeal; review by court. 1. No public municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by the village in any street or highway until it has become a public street or highway and …

§ 7-738 Subdivision review; approval of cluster development. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "cluster development" shall mean a subdivision plat or plats, approved pursuant to this article, in which the applicable zoning local law is modified to provide an alternati…

§ 7-739 Coordination with agricultural districts program. 1. Policy of local governments. Local governments shall exercise their powers to enact local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations that apply to farm operations in an agricultural district in a manner which does not unre…

§ 7-740 Review of decisions of planning board. Any officer, department, board or bureau of the village, with the approval of the board of trustees, or any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat or the changing…

§ 7-741 Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land use regulation. 1. Legislative intent. This section is intended to illustrate the statutory authority that any municipal corporation has under article five-G of the general municipal law and place within land …

§ 7-742 Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application direc…

§ 8-800 Police departments. The board of trustees of a village may, by resolution, establish a police department in such village and appoint a chief of police and such personnel as may be needed, and fix their compensation. The board of trustees may abolish a police department e…

§ 8-802 Powers and duties of police officers. The police officers so appointed shall have all the powers and be subject to the duties and liabilities of constables of towns in serving process in any civil action or proceeding. In addition to other powers conferred by law, said p…

§ 8-804 Discipline and charges. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, a member of such police force or department shall continue in office unless suspended or dismissed. The board of trustees or municipal board shall have power and is authorized to adopt and make rules and reg…

§ 8-806 Review. The conviction of any member of such police force or department shall be subject to review by the supreme court in the judicial district in which such village is located, in the manner provided by article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules on the g…

§ 9-900 Acts or resolutions of the board of trustees that are subject to referendum on petition. l. Whenever this chapter shall expressly provide that an act or resolution of the board of trustees is subject to a permissive referendum, such act or resolution shall be subject to …

§ 9-902 Referendum on petition; registration list of electors. 1. An act or resolution of the board of trustees as described in the preceding section shall not take effect until thirty days after its adoption; nor until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the quali…

§ 9-904 Proposition for the submission of acts or resolutions. A proposition submitting an act or resolution of the board of trustees to the approval of the electors pursuant to this chapter shall contain an abstract of such act or resolution concisely stating the purpose and ef…

§ 9-906 Reconsideration of act or resolution upon submission to referendum. At any time after the adoption of an act or resolution and not later than fifteen days prior to the election, the board of trustees of the village may reconsider its action thereon and if upon such recon…

§ 9-908 Referendum on acts or resolutions of the board of trustees without petition. The board of trustees may, upon its own motion, cause to be submitted for the approval of the qualified electors of such village, an act or resolution of such board in connection with which a pe…

§ 9-910 Referendum for adoption of local law at village elections. 1. Whenever, pursuant to law, public sports, exercises or shows are permitted on the first day of the week after five minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon upon the adoption of a local law by the board of tru…

§ 9-912 Propositions--submission and special election. 1. The board of trustees may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon the petition of at least two hundred electors in villages containing a population of five thousand or more; by at least one hundred fifty electors in village…

§ 9-914 Resubmission of defeated propositions. A proposition submitted in pursuance of section 9-912 of this article or of section 9-900 of this article and which has been defeated, or in the case of a permissive referendum in which the action of the board of trustees has been d…

§ 9-916 Inconsistent local laws. No local law shall be adopted changing, amending or superseding any of the provisions of this article.