City of Buffalo, NY
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2023-11-15
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 286 Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings
- The Charter
- Ch C The Charter
- Ch CDL Disposition of Charter Legislation
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- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Boards, Committees, Agencies and Commissions
- Ch 12 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16 Finance
- Ch 24 Libraries
- Ch 27 Notice, Publication of
- Ch 30 Office Hours and Holidays
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 44 Seal
- Ch 46 Telecommunications, Office of
- Ch 48 Time, Official
- Ch 53 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 63 Aircraft
- Ch 66 Air Pollution
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 72 Ambulances and Ambulance Drivers
- Ch 75 Amusements
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 85 Bait Dippers
- Ch 88 Bakers and Confectioners
- Ch 91 Bicycle Paths
- Ch 92 Billiard and Pool Rooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 94 Boilers and Engines; Engineers
- Ch 96 Bonds and Contracts
- Ch 98 (Reserved)
- Ch 101 Buildings, Cleaning of
- Ch 103 Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 109 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 111 Buildings, Public
- Ch 113 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 116 Burials
- Ch 119 Burning, Open
- Ch 120 Bureau of Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 122 Business Identification and Registration
- Ch 129 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 130 Sales of Cannabis and Products Containing Cannabis
- Ch 131 Certificate of Operation
- Ch 132 Tobacco/Hookah/Vaping Establishments
- Ch 133 City Property
- Ch 137 Code Enforcement
- Ch 140 Collection Agencies
- Ch 141 Collection of Arrears
- Ch 142 Collection Boxes
- Ch 143 Consumer Electronics Installation and Repair
- Ch 144 Contractors
- Ch 150 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 154 Discrimination
- Ch 158 Diseases, Infectious
- Ch 159 Dentistry
- Ch 160 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 161 Drugs
- Ch 165 Electricity
- Ch 167 Elevators and Conveyances
- Ch 168 Environmental Review
- Ch 169 Excavations and Quarries
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 180 Firearms, Arrows and Other Weapons
- Ch 183 Flags
- Ch 186 Flammable Liquids
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Food and Drugs
- Ch 194 Food Stores
- Ch 196 (Reserved)
- Ch 199 Fruits and Vegetables
- Ch 203 Fumigation
- Ch 209 Gambling
- Ch 213 Games of Chance
- Ch 216 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 219 Gasoline
- Ch 222 (Reserved)
- Ch 226 Grain
- Ch 232 Handbills and Other Publications
- Ch 235 Hazardous Materials and Wastes
- Ch 238 Heating
- Ch 242 Housing Standards
- Ch 249 Inspections
- Ch 254 Junk Dealers and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 259 Laundries and Clothes Cleaners
- Ch 261 Lead-Based Paint Abatement
- Ch 263 Licenses
- Ch 264 Rental Dwelling Unit Registration
- Ch 265 Property Managers
- Ch 266 Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- Ch 269 Lodging Houses
- Ch 270 Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession
- Ch 275 Markets
- Ch 277 Mortgage in Default Property Registry
- Ch 278 Motion Pictures
- Ch 281 Multiple Housing
- Ch 286 Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings
- § 286-1 Compliance required.
- § 286-2 Duplicate names.
- § 286-3 Procedure for adopting new names or changing existing names.
- § 286-4 Records.
- § 286-5 Notification of new names and name changes.
- § 286-6 Identification signs.
- Ch 288 Natural Gas Extraction
- Ch 289 Newsstands
- Ch 293 Noise
- Ch 294 Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 295 Nuisance Party
- Ch 299 Obscenity
- Ch 302 Oil and Gas Wells
- Ch 307 Parking and Parking Lots
- Ch 309 Parks and Other Open Spaces
- Ch 313 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 316 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 317 Aggressive Panhandling
- Ch 319 Performers, Outdoor
- Ch 322 (Reserved)
- Ch 326 Plumbing
- Ch 330 Poles and Wires
- Ch 333 Police Shields, Use of
- Ch 337 Preservation Standards
- Ch 341 Property Maintenance
- Ch 343 Promoting General Welfare of Minors in Public Places
- Ch 345 Public Safety, Obstruction of
- Ch 352 Railroads
- Ch 356 Rat Control
- Ch 361 Records
- Ch 365 Refrigerators
- Ch 370 Restaurants
- Ch 372 Bouncers
- Ch 378 Sanitation
- Ch 383 Shortwave Broadcasts
- Ch 387 (Reserved)
- Ch 391 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 395 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 399 Smoking
- Ch 404 (Reserved)
- Ch 409 Statues and Monuments; Public Art
- Ch 413 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 414 Special Events
- Ch 417 Strikebreakers
- Ch 421 (Reserved)
- Ch 425 (Reserved)
- Ch 430 Swimming Pools
- Ch 431 Tax Preparers, Regulation of
- Ch 437 Taxicabs, Liveries and Sightseeing Buses
- Ch 440 Telecommunications
- Ch 441 Telephone Facilities
- Ch 442 Wireless Facilities in Public Right-Of-Way
- Ch 444 (Reserved)
- Ch 449 Tires
- Ch 452 Alcohol Advertising
- Ch 454 Tow Trucks and Motor Vehicle Booting
- Ch 459 Trailers
- Ch 463 Transient Businesses; Trade Shows and Festivals
- Ch 467 Trees, Shrubs and Plants
- Ch 475 (Reserved)
- Ch 479 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 483 Vending Machines
- Ch 491 Water and Water Pollution
- Ch 495 Wharves, Harbors and Bridges
- Ch 496 Unified Development Ordinance
- Ch 501 Wood and Coal
- Ch 511 (Reserved)
- Distribution Table
- Ch DT Distribution Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Derived from Art. XVI of Ch. VI of the Charter
and Ordinances, 1974, of the City of Buffalo. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
All streets heretofore laid out and dedicated, all parks and
all public buildings shall be known by the names now recorded, and
no change in the name of any street, park or public building or the
naming of a new or unnamed street, park or public building, with the
exception of the proposed downtown baseball stadium, shall be made
except under the procedures outlined in this chapter.
The Common Council shall not approve and the City Engineer shall
not record any street, park or public building name when any other
street, park or public building shall have been recorded with the
same name unless a new street, park or public building is a continuation
of or in alignment with or an addition to existing recorded streets,
parks or public buildings, in which event they shall bear the same
name of said existing streets, parks or public buildings.
A.
Request for consideration to adopt a new name or change of name.
(1)
Any number of City residents by petition to the Common Council or
the Mayor by written communication to the Common Council or any Councilman
by resolution duly filed may request the Common Council to consider
the naming or change of name of a public street, park or public building.
B.
Notice of intention. The Common Council may disapprove or approve
any such request. If the Common Council approves such request, a public
hearing shall be held thereon. The Common Council shall direct the
City Clerk to prepare and submit to the Common Council for its consideration
a notice of intention to name or change the name of the public street,
park or public building designated in the aforesaid request. Said
notice of intention shall contain the proposed name or change of name,
the existing name, if any, and the time and place for the public hearing.
The hearing shall be held before the Common Council in its Council
chambers.
C.
Notice of public hearing. Notice of the public hearing shall be given
by publication of the aforesaid notice of intention pursuant to the
manner authorized by Section 48 of the Charter. Publication of said
notice shall be made once a week for two consecutive weeks. The first
publication shall be made no later than 30 days after the adoption
by the Common Council of the aforesaid notice. The public hearing
shall be held before the Common Council within 10 days after the date
of the last publication.
D.
Within 30 days following the public hearing described in Subsections B and C, the Common Council must act on the proposed name or change of name. The concurrence of three-fourths (3/4) of the members of the full Council shall be required to approve such name or change of name if the name involves that of a street; otherwise a majority shall suffice. The failure of the Common Council to act within 30 days shall be deemed to be a refusal of the proposed name or change of name.
The City Engineer shall keep a record of the names of all streets
and parks. No person shall put up any street sign or other sign naming
a park or public building until the same shall be recorded.
The City Clerk shall send a certified copy of an approved notice
of intention naming or changing the name of a street, park or public
building to the Erie County Division of Planning, Erie County Commissioner
of Finance, City Planning Board, Department of Assessment of the City
of Buffalo, Division of Planning of the Department of Community Development,
Division of Engineering of the Department of Public Works and the
main branch of the United States Post Office located in Buffalo, New
York.
Every public building owned and maintained by the City of Buffalo
for governmental purposes shall have an identification sign, visible
from the street or public right-of-way, indicating the name of the
building.
