A01843 Summary:
| BILL NO | A01843 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | McLaughlin |
| COSPNSR | McDonough, Miller ML, Walter, Ortiz, Giglio, Murray, Friend |
| MLTSPNSR | Crouch, Garbarino, Hawley, Lopez, Palmesano, Walsh |
| Amd §§1620, 1621 & 1622, V & T L | |
| Requires department of transportation to defer to town board requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes on state highway, county road and town highways where public safety nexus exists. | |
A01843 Actions:
| BILL NO | A01843 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/13/2017 | referred to transportation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A01843 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1843 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McLAUGHLIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to giving local town boards the discretion to change speed limits for safety The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1620 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) The department of transportation shall defer to requests for speed 4 limit changes by the town board of a town or towns affected with respect 5 to state highways maintained by the state in such town or towns outside 6 of cities or villages, where a reasonable nexus between public safety 7 and such request for a change in speed limit exists. 8 § 2. Section 1621 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding 9 a new subdivision (e) to read as follows: 10 (e) The department of transportation shall defer to requests for 11 signage and signal changes by the town board of a town or towns affected 12 with respect to state highways maintained by the state in such town or 13 towns outside of cities or villages, where a reasonable nexus between 14 public safety and such request for a change in signage and signals 15 exists. 16 § 3. Section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding 17 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 18 3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, if any 19 reasonable nexus exists between public safety and the request by a coun- 20 ty superintendent of highways of a county or a town board, for a change 21 in speed limit, the department of transportation shall defer to the 22 county superintendent of highways' or town board's request in setting 23 the speed limit on the county roads and town highways in such town or 24 towns outside of cities or villages. 25 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03986-01-7