Authorizes the village of East Hills, town of North Hempstead, Nassau county to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1566
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 East Hills, 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.
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1 avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue
2 and Taft avenue; except that in the village of East Hills, town of North
3 Hempstead, county of Nassau, speed limits may be established at not less
4 than twenty-five miles per hour on village roads in the village of East
5 Hills. No such speed limit applicable on or along designated highways
6 within such city or village shall be established at less than twenty-
7 five miles per hour, except that school speed limits may be established
8 at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not to exceed
9 one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school
10 building, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway and
11 except that within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed limits may
12 be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour for any portion
13 of a highway within a city park.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
