STATE OF NEW YORK
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4485
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend chapter 399 of the laws of 2008 relating to giving
certain Westchester county town boards the discretion to change speed
limits, in relation to giving the town board of the town of Riverhead,
county of Suffolk, the discretion to change speed limits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1 of
2 chapter 399 of the laws of 2008 relating to giving certain Westchester
3 county town boards the discretion to change speed limits, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 Notwithstanding the provisions of section sixteen hundred twenty-two
6 of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu of making a request of the
7 department of transportation pursuant to such section, the town boards
8 of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, North Castle and Pound Ridge in the
9 county of Westchester, and the town board of the town of Riverhead in
10 the county of Suffolk, with respect to town highways which have been
11 functionally classified by the department of transportation as local
12 roads on official functional classification maps approved by the federal
13 highway administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the code
14 of federal regulations, as amended from time to time, and which are
15 outside of cities and villages, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule
16 or regulation:
17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1 of chapter 399 of the laws of 2008
18 relating to giving certain Westchester county town boards the discretion
19 to change speed limits, is amended to read as follows:
20 4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
21 ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
22 at the request of the town boards of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro,
23 North Castle and Pound Ridge in the county of Westchester, and the town
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 board of the town of Riverhead in the county of Suffolk, with respect to
2 all town highways within such towns outside of cities and villages
3 pursuant to subdivision one of this section, provided that no maximum
4 speed limits have been established by such town boards pursuant to this
5 act on any town highway functionally classified as a local road within
6 such towns.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
