STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3329 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend chapter 399 of the laws of 2008 relating to giving certain Westchester county town boards the discretion to change speed limits, in relation to giving the town board of the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk, the discretion to change speed limits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1 of 2 chapter 399 of the laws of 2008 relating to giving certain Westchester 3 county town boards the discretion to change speed limits, is amended to 4 read as follows: 5 Notwithstanding the provisions of section sixteen hundred twenty-two 6 of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu of making a request of the 7 department of transportation pursuant to such section, the town boards 8 of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, North Castle and Pound Ridge in the 9 county of Westchester, and the town board of the town of Riverhead in 10 the county of Suffolk, with respect to town highways which have been 11 functionally classified by the department of transportation as local 12 roads on official functional classification maps approved by the federal 13 highway administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the code 14 of federal regulations, as amended from time to time, and which are 15 outside of cities and villages, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule 16 or regulation: 17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1 of chapter 399 of the laws of 2008 18 relating to giving certain Westchester county town boards the discretion 19 to change speed limits, is amended to read as follows: 20 4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori- 21 ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits 22 at the request of the town boards of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, 23 North Castle and Pound Ridge in the county of Westchester, and the town EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08352-01-9S. 3329 2 1 board of the town of Riverhead in the county of Suffolk, with respect to 2 all town highways within such towns outside of cities and villages 3 pursuant to subdivision one of this section, provided that no maximum 4 speed limits have been established by such town boards pursuant to this 5 act on any town highway functionally classified as a local road within 6 such towns. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 8 have become a law.