Bill Text: NY A09618 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a city, town or village to clearly display 25 miles per hour speed limits on such city, town or village's highways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - enacting clause stricken [A09618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09618-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9618

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  BURDICK, GOTTFRIED -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  designating
          twenty-five miles per hour speed limits in a city, town or village

          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
    21  established  at less than thirty miles per hour; except that in the city
    22  of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be  established
    23  at  not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the following
    24  highways in  such  city:  Cleveland  avenue,  Harding  avenue,  Mitchell
    25  avenue,  Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue
    26  and Taft avenue. No such speed limit applicable on or  along  designated
    27  highways  within  such city or village shall be established at less than
    28  twenty-five miles per hour, except  that  school  speed  limits  may  be
    29  established  at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not
    30  to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a
    31  school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting  on  the  highway

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14236-02-2
        A. 9618                             2

     1  and  except that within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed limits
     2  may be established at not less than  fifteen  miles  per  hour  for  any
     3  portion  of  a highway within a city park. When a city or village estab-
     4  lishes  a  twenty-five miles per hour speed limit on more than one high-
     5  way, such city or village shall clearly designate the established  limit
     6  at all of its boundaries.
     7    §  2.  Section  1662-a  of  the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     8  chapter 405 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     9    § 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any  subur-
    10  ban  town  governed  pursuant to article three-A of the town law and the
    11  town board of any other town having a population exceeding  fifty  thou-
    12  sand,  with  respect  to  highways  (which term for the purposes of this
    13  section shall include private roads open to public motor  vehicle  traf-
    14  fic)  in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main-
    15  tained by the state on which the department of transportation shall have
    16  established higher or lower speed limits than the  statutory  fifty-five
    17  miles per hour speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty
    18  of  this  title, or on which the department of transportation shall have
    19  designated that such towns shall not establish any maximum  speed  limit
    20  as  provided  in  section  sixteen  hundred  twenty-four  of this title,
    21  subject to the limitations imposed by section  sixteen  hundred  eighty-
    22  four  of  this  title  may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regu-
    23  lation establish maximum speed limits  at  which  vehicles  may  proceed
    24  within  such towns, within designated areas of such towns or on or along
    25  designated highways within such towns lower than  the  fifty-five  miles
    26  per  hour  maximum  statutory  limit.  No  such  speed  limit applicable
    27  throughout such towns or within designated areas of such towns shall  be
    28  established  at less than thirty miles per hour, except that in the town
    29  of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not  less  than  fifteen
    30  miles  per  hour  on  any portion of a highway in the community known as
    31  Point Lookout and on all or any portion of the following highways in the
    32  community known as Lido Beach: Ocean Boulevard,  Allevard  Street,  Bath
    33  Street,  Buxton  Street,  Cheltenham Street, Pinehurst Street, Harrogate
    34  Street, Matlock Street, Nantwick Street, Biarritz Street, Royat  Street,
    35  Luchon  Street,  Woodhail  Street,  Leamington  Street, Saratoga Street,
    36  Kensington Street, and Prescott Street; provided, however, that no  such
    37  speed  limit  in  such  town may be established unless a majority of the
    38  residents of each such community file a petition with the town board  of
    39  such town requesting such speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on
    40  or  along  designated highways within such towns shall be established at
    41  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that  school  speed  limits
    42  may  be  established  at  not  less  than  fifteen miles per hour, for a
    43  distance not to exceed one thousand three  hundred  twenty  feet,  on  a
    44  highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
    45  on  the  highway, and except further that in the town of Hempstead speed
    46  limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any
    47  portion of a highway in the communities known as Point Lookout and  Lido
    48  Beach;  provided,  however, that no such speed limit in such town may be
    49  established unless a majority of the residents of  each  such  community
    50  file  a  petition with the town board of such town requesting such speed
    51  limit. When a town establishes a twenty-five miles per hour speed  limit
    52  on  more  than one highway, such town shall clearly designate the estab-
    53  lished limit at all of its boundaries.
    54    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    55  have become a law.