STATE OF NEW YORK
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408
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the Rochester city traffic control
board of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe to regulate speed
limits in such city
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
2 Rochester city traffic control board of the city of Rochester, county of
3 Monroe, may by local law establish maximum speed limits at which vehi-
4 cles may proceed on or along such city highways in such city outside of
5 incorporated villages of not more than the fifty-five miles per hour
6 statutory maximum speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on or
7 along such designated highways within such city shall be established at
8 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits
9 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
10 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
11 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
12 on the highway.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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