Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1483
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH,
MILLER, SMULLEN, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
limits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (a) The department of transportation with respect to state highways
5 maintained by the state outside of cities having a population in excess
6 of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order, rule
7 or regulation establish higher or lower maximum speed limits at which
8 vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
9 per hour statutory maximum speed limit. No such maximum speed limit
10 shall be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except
11 that school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen
12 miles per hour by the department of transportation or by the legislative
13 body of any county or, if so delegated by such county legislative body,
14 by the legislative body of any municipality or school district located
15 within said county, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three
16 hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or
17 exit of a school abutting on the highway. Absence of signs installed
18 pursuant to this section shall be presumptive evidence that the depart-
19 ment of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed limit
20 than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
22 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05165-01-3
