Bill Text: NY A06908 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


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 passing a school building.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to transportation [A06908 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A06908-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6908
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 13, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCOZZAFAVA  -- 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 OR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOCATED
   15  WITHIN SAID COUNTY, for a distance not  to  exceed  one  thousand  three
   16  hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or
   17  exit  of  a  school  abutting on the highway. Absence of signs installed
   18  pursuant to this section shall be presumptive evidence that the  depart-
   19  ment  of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed limit
   20  than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08522-01-9
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