Bill Text: NY A02561 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02561 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02561-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2561
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2019
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        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.
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