§ 280. Establishment or extension of residential or residential and
recreational areas in the Lake George park. 1. The legislature hereby
declares that the preservation, protection, development and proper use
of real property in the Lake George park is a matter of interest to all
the people of the state and that it is, accordingly, necessary to enact
this article as a means of providing for such preservation, protection,
development and use.

2. For the purposes described in subdivision one of this section and
for the further purposes of preserving and developing the residential
and recreational facilities of the state for the benefit of the public
and promoting the health, safety, morals or general welfare of the
community, the village board of any village or the town board of any
town lying wholly or partly within the Lake George park, upon a petition
as hereinafter provided, is hereby empowered to establish in such
village or town by ordinance or local law, a residential or a
residential and recreational area consisting of any area of land therein
including at least forty acres and lying within the Lake George park, or
to extend such an area once established, which has not been previously
restricted to residential or residential and recreational purposes by a
zoning ordinance or local law enacted pursuant to article seven of the
village law or article sixteen of the town law. Such board is further
empowered to prohibit, restrict, regulate and control by such ordinance
or local law, and such ordinances or local laws as thereafter amended,
the use of all buildings, structures and land within such an area for
any industrial or commercial purpose and to limit by such ordinance or
local law, and such ordinance or local law as thereafter amended, the
use of all buildings, structures and land within such an area to use for
one or two family residential purposes, or to use for one or two family
residential and non-profit recreational purposes. Any such ordinance or
local law shall not apply to a non-conforming use in existence at the
time of the effective date of any such ordinance or local law. Any such
ordinance or local law may provide that a violation thereof is an
offense punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or
imprisonment for not to exceed sixty days, or both, and that each
calendar week's continued violation shall constitute a separate
additional violation. In the event that a provision of an ordinance or
local law adopted pursuant to this article conflicts with a provision of
a zoning ordinance or local law subsequently adopted pursuant to article
seven of the village law or article sixteen of the town law, the
provision of the zoning ordinance or local law so subsequently adopted
shall govern.