Bill Text: NY A01095 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01095 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01095-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1095 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 5. Establishment of maximum and minimum speed limits at which vehicles 5 may proceed on or along such highways. No such maximum speed limit shall 6 be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that 7 school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles 8 per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty 9 feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a 10 school abutting on the highway, and except that, with respect to bridge 11 and elevated structures that are a part of any such highway, a lower 12 maximum speed limit may be established if it is determined that such 13 lower maximum speed limit is the maximum speed limit which may be main- 14 tained without structural damage to such bridge or structure, and except 15 that, with respect to any highway under the jurisdiction of the office 16 of parks, recreation and historic preservation, other than a parkway as 17 defined in subdivision seventeen of section 1.03 of the parks, recre- 18 ation and historic preservation law, the department of agriculture and 19 markets, the department of environmental conservation, or the industrial 20 exhibit authority, a maximum speed limit of not less than ten miles per 21 hour may be established on any portion thereof, if it is determined that 22 such lower maximum speed limit is necessary to assure the safety of the 23 public, and except that, with respect to any highway having toll plazas, 24 a maximum speed limit of not less than five miles per hour may be estab- 25 lished for passage through such toll plazas. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01906-01-7