Bill Text: NY A01416 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01416 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01416-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01416 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01416-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1416 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 26 of subdivision (a) of 2 section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 248 of 3 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) With respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this 5 paragraph shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle traf- 6 fic) in such city, other than state highways maintained by the state on 7 which the department of transportation shall have established higher or 8 lower speed limits than the statutory fifty-five miles per hour speed 9 limit as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on 10 which the department of transportation shall have designated that such 11 city shall not establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section 12 sixteen hundred twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations 13 imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title, establish- 14 ment of maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed within such 15 city or within designated areas of such city higher or lower than the 16 fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit 17 applicable throughout such city or within designated areas of such city 18 shall be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except 19 that school speed limits may be established at no less than fifteen 20 miles per hour pursuant to the provisions of section sixteen hundred 21 forty-three of this article and except that open streets speed limits 22 may be established at no less than five miles per hour. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 25 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 26 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 27 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00664-01-3