STATE OF NEW YORK
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7644
IN SENATE
June 11, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
the department of environmental conservation to establish certain
speed limits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1630 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 5. Establishment of maximum and minimum speed limits at which vehicles
5 may proceed on or along such highways. No such maximum speed limit shall
6 be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that
7 school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles
8 per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty
9 feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a
10 school abutting on the highway, and except that, with respect to bridge
11 and elevated structures that are a part of any such highway, a lower
12 maximum speed limit may be established if it is determined that such
13 lower maximum speed limit is the maximum speed limit which may be main-
14 tained without structural damage to such bridge or structure, and except
15 that, with respect to any highway under the jurisdiction of the office
16 of parks, recreation and historic preservation, other than a parkway as
17 defined in subdivision seventeen of section 1.03 of the parks, recre-
18 ation and historic preservation law, the department of agriculture and
19 markets, the department of environmental conservation, or the industrial
20 exhibit authority, a maximum speed limit of not less than ten miles per
21 hour may be established on any portion thereof, if it is determined that
22 such lower maximum speed limit is necessary to assure the safety of the
23 public, and except that, with respect to any highway having toll plazas,
24 a maximum speed limit of not less than five miles per hour may be estab-
25 lished for passage through such toll plazas.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16188-01-2
