Section 7-706. Method of procedure  


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  • 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.