STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a
population in excess of one million
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 27 of subdivision (a) of
2 section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 248
3 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Establishment of maximum speed limits below twenty-five miles per
5 hour at which motor vehicles may proceed on or along designated highways
6 within such city for the explicit purpose of implementing traffic calm-
7 ing measures as such term is defined herein or for the explicit purpose
8 of implementing an open street; provided, however, that no speed limit
9 shall be set below fifteen miles per hour nor shall such speed limit be
10 established where the traffic calming measure to be implemented consists
11 solely of a traffic control sign, and provided, further, that no speed
12 limit shall be set below five miles per hour on an open street. Estab-
13 lishment of such a speed limit shall, where applicable, be in compliance
14 with the provisions of sections sixteen hundred twenty-four and sixteen
15 hundred eighty-four of this [chapter] article. Nothing contained herein
16 shall be deemed to alter or affect the establishment of school speed
17 limits pursuant to the provisions of section sixteen hundred forty-three
18 of this article. For the purposes of this paragraph, "traffic calming
19 measures" shall mean any physical engineering measure or measures that
20 reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior
21 and improve conditions for non-motorized street users such as pedestri-
22 ans and bicyclists, and "open street" shall mean a street or segment of
23 a street designated by the New York city department of transportation as
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 such pursuant to section 19-107.1 of the administrative code of the city
2 of New York, on which motor vehicle access is controlled by barriers and
3 signage or other traffic calming measures, and on which priority is
4 given to pedestrians, individuals using bicycles, and other non-vehicu-
5 lar street users.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
9 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
10 on or before such effective date.
