Bill Text: NY S05703 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to speed limits in the village of Flower Hill, town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau; provides that such speed limits may be established at not less than twenty-five miles per hour on village roads in the village of Flower Hill.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05703 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05703-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5703
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 26, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
          in the village of Flower Hill, town  of  North  Hempstead,  county  of
          Nassau
          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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11174-01-7
        S. 5703                             2
     1  avenue,  Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue
     2  and Taft avenue; except that in the village  of  Flower  Hill,  town  of
     3  North  Hempstead,  county  of Nassau, speed limits may be established at
     4  not less than twenty-five miles per hour on village roads in the village
     5  of  Flower Hill.   No such speed limit applicable on or along designated
     6  highways within such city or village shall be established at  less  than
     7  twenty-five  miles  per  hour,  except  that  school speed limits may be
     8  established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance  not
     9  to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a
    10  school  building,  entrance  or exit of a school abutting on the highway
    11  and except that within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed  limits
    12  may  be  established  at  not  less  than fifteen miles per hour for any
    13  portion of a highway within a city park.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.