[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
There shall be a City Planning Board to consist of seven members to be appointed by the Mayor, who shall have the power to remove any members of such Board for cause and after public hearing. The present members of the Board shall serve out the remainder of their terms. Their successors and the successors of those now in office shall be appointed for terms of three years from and after the expiration of the term of their predecessors in office. If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of the term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. The Director of Development shall attend all meetings of the Planning Board and shall cooperate with the Planning Board in the performance of its duties.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
The Mayor shall designate a member of the Planning Board to act as Chairman thereof for a term of one year, or on his failure so to do, the Planning Board shall elect a Chairman from its own members. The Director of Development shall provide to the Planning Board a planning consultant and such experts, technical advisors and staff as may be required by the Planning Board at a cost not to exceed that provided for in the annual expense budget for said purposes. The members of the Board shall serve without compensation.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
The Planning Board shall have all of the powers and duties specifically granted or imposed by Article 3 of the General City Law and in addition thereto such powers and duties which the Council may from time to time confer or impose upon it by separate, general or specific rule, ordinance or resolution in accordance with the provisions of said Article 3 as the same may from time to time be amended.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
Appeals from decisions of the Planning Board may be taken as provided by Article 3 of the General City Law and any amendments or additions thereto and any other provisions of the law applicable thereto.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
The Planning Board shall prepare and shall keep up-to-date a Comprehensive Master Plan for the development of the city, which Master Plan shall show existing and proposed streets, bridges and tunnels and the approaches thereto, viaducts, parks, public reservations, roadways in parks, sites for public buildings and structures, zoning districts, pier head and bulkhead lines, waterways and routes of public utilities, location of drainage systems, sewer, sewer treatment plants, incinerators, water conduits, either privately or publicly owned, and such other features existing and proposed as will provide for the improvement of the city and its future growth, protection and development and will afford adequate facilities for public housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, public health, safety and general welfare of its population.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
The Official Map or Plan of the City of New Rochelle as the same shall exist at the time when this amendment goes into effect is hereby continued and referred to in this chapter as the "Official Map."
1. 
The Director of Development shall be the custodian of the Official Map, and it shall be the duty of the Director of Development to complete and maintain the same and to register thereon all changes resulting from action authorized by law. He shall file with the Clerk of the County of Westchester a certificate showing that the city has established an Official Map.
2. 
The Official Map shall be filed in the office of the Director of Development and certified copies thereof and of all changes thereto shall be filed in the office of the Corporation Counsel, the City Manager, the City Clerk and the City Engineer.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962); amended by Local Law No. 1-1968 (September 9, 1968).]
a. 
After the adoption of the Master Plan or any part thereof, no improvement or project affecting the Master Plan, and no addition to or change in the plan shall be authorized otherwise than as provided in this chapter.
b. 
Before taking action on any proposed addition to or change in the Official Map, the City Council shall refer it to the Planning Board, which shall report thereon within 30 days with respect to its relation to the Master Plan and the Official Map. If the Board shall not make this report with respect to any proposed change within 30 days of such reference, it shall forfeit its right to further withhold its report.
c. 
An addition to or change in the Official Map may be initiated by recommendation of the Board to the City Council adopted after public hearing before the Board, notice of which shall be published in the local newspaper at least 10 days prior thereto, with the same effect as a report made by the Board on a proposed addition or change referred to by the City Council.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
In order to effect the accomplishment and purposes of the powers herein authorized, the City Council and the Planning Board shall schedule joint meetings with respect to the capital improvement program, the Master Plan and the Official Map. To further effectuate the purposes there shall be a coordinating committee, to consist of the City Manager and two members of the Council who shall be appointed by the Council and two members of the Planning Board who shall be appointed by the Planning Board.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 2-1955 (June 15, 1955); repealed by Local Law No. 6-1962 (July 11, 1962).]
The Municipal Art Commission shall be composed of seven members appointed by the Mayor, among whom one shall be designated as Chairperson by the Mayor. One member shall be appointed from the New Rochelle Art Association, and one member shall be appointed from the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. All shall reside or work in the city. The term of office of each member shall be three years. The City Manager or the City Manager's designee(s) shall serve ex officio as (a) non-voting member(s) of the Commission. The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation. The Commission may adopt its own rules of procedure. Four members shall constitute a quorum.
[Enacted by Local Law No. 6-1965 (December 8, 1965); amended by Local Law No. 6-2006 (June 20, 2006); Local Law No. 2-2014 (July 15, 2014).]
The Municipal Art Commission shall be composed of seven members appointed by the Mayor, among whom one shall be designated as Chairperson by the Mayor. One member shall be appointed from the New Rochelle Art Association, and one member shall be appointed from the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. All shall reside or work in the city. The term of office of each member shall be three years. The City Manager or the City Manager's designee(s) shall serve ex officio as (a) non-voting member(s) of the Commission. The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation. The Commission may adopt its own rules of procedure. Four members shall constitute a quorum.
[Amended by Local Law No. 4-1969 (July 14, 1969); Local Law No. 6-2006 (June 20, 2006).]
No work of art shall be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon, any street, park, public building or other property belonging to the city until the same and its proposed location have been approved by the Commission. When required by the Commission, a complete model of a proposed work of art shall be submitted to it. No work of art in the possession of the city shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way without the approval of the Commission; but in case the immediate removal or relocation of any such work of art is deemed an emergency by the City Manager, the Commission shall be deemed to have approved same unless, within 48 hours after notice from the City Manager, it notifies the City Manager of its disapproval of such removal or relocation. The term "work of art" as used herein shall apply to and include mural decorations, stained glass, statues, basreliefs or other sculptures of a permanent character intended for ornament or commemoration. No building, pedestrian bridge, approach gate, fence, lamp, permanent streetscape element, or other structure shall be erected upon and or over any street or land belonging to the city, unless the design thereof has first been submitted to the Art Commission for its recommendation and report to the Council. The City Council may by resolution or ordinance vest the Commission with such other responsibilities and duties as the City Council shall deem necessary, including but not limited to advisory opinions regarding matters involving aesthetics and design.
The City Manager may appoint a board of citizens qualified to act in an advisory capacity to the head of any department and, with the approval of the Manager, the director of a department may appoint such a board to act in an advisory capacity to the chief of any division or bureau under his supervision. The member of any such board shall serve without compensation, and it shall be his duty to consult and advise with the director of such department or chief of such division or bureau, as the case may be, but not to direct the conduct of the department, division or bureau. The head of the department, division or bureau for which an advisory board is appointed shall be chairman of all meetings thereof.