Bill Text: NY A04715 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, Monroe county, to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-09 - print number 4715a [A04715 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04715-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4715--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES, ASHBY, SAYEGH, SALKA, McDONOUGH, D'URSO, LAWRENCE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTEFANO, MANKTELOW, B. MILLER, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits in the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, county of Monroe The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1643 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by 2 chapter 412 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The legisla- 4 tive body of any city or village with respect to highways (which term 5 for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open to 6 public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than state 7 highways maintained by the state on which the department of transporta- 8 tion shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statu- 9 tory fifty-five miles per hour speed limit as provided in section 10 sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on which the department of 11 transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall not 12 establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred 13 twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by section 14 sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local law, ordinance, 15 order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at which vehi- 16 cles may proceed within such city or village, within designated areas of 17 such city or village or on or along designated highways within such city 18 or village higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour maximum 19 statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable throughout such city or 20 village or within designated areas of such city or village shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07074-02-0A. 4715--A 2 1 established at less than thirty miles per hour; except that in the city 2 of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be established 3 at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the following 4 highways in such city: Cleveland avenue, Harding avenue, Mitchell 5 avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue 6 and Taft avenue; except that in the village of Pittsford, town of Pitts- 7 ford, county of Monroe, speed limits may be established at not less than 8 twenty-five miles per hour on state roads in the village of Pittsford. 9 No such speed limit applicable on or along designated highways within 10 such city or village shall be established at less than twenty-five miles 11 per hour, except that school speed limits may be established at not less 12 than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand 13 three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, 14 entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway and except that 15 within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed limits may be estab- 16 lished at not less than fifteen miles per hour for any portion of a 17 highway within a city park. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
