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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5563
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 2, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SKELOS -- 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 city of Long Beach, Nassau county
 
          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 563 of the laws of 2002, 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
    25  avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson  avenue
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10059-01-1
        S. 5563                             2
 
     1  and  Taft  avenue. No such speed limit applicable on or along designated
     2  highways within such city or village shall be established at  less  than
     3  twenty-five  miles  per  hour,  except  that  school speed limits may be
     4  established  at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not

     5  to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a
     6  school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting  on  the  highway
     7  and  except that within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed limits
     8  may be established at not less than  fifteen  miles  per  hour  for  any
     9  portion of a highway within a city park.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.