Bill Text: NY A02993 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway, county or town road passing a school building.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02993 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02993-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2993

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
          limits

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 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    (a) The department of transportation with respect  to  state  highways
     5  maintained  by the state outside of cities having a population in excess
     6  of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order,  rule
     7  or  regulation  establish  higher or lower maximum speed limits at which
     8  vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
     9  per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  No  such  maximum  speed  limit
    10  shall  be  established  at  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except
    11  that school speed limits may be established at  not  less  than  fifteen
    12  miles per hour by the department of transportation or by the legislative
    13  body  of any county or, if so delegated by such county legislative body,
    14  by the legislative body of any municipality located within said  county,
    15  for  a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on
    16  a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school  abut-
    17  ting on the highway. Absence of signs installed pursuant to this section
    18  shall  be presumptive evidence that the department of transportation has
    19  not established a higher maximum speed limit than the  fifty-five  miles
    20  per hour statutory limit.
    21    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    22  amended by chapter 563 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
    23  follows:
    24    1.  Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
    25  along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles  per  hour

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03329-01-3
        A. 2993                             2

     1  statutory  maximum  speed  limit.  No such limit shall be established at
     2  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that  school  speed  limits
     3  may  be  established  at  not  less  than  fifteen miles per hour by the
     4  department  of  transportation  or by the legislative body of any county
     5  or, if so delegated by such county legislative body, by the  legislative
     6  body  of any municipality located within said county, for a distance not
     7  to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a
     8  school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.