Senate Bill S5788

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 5788--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 5, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  SKELOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  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
  the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish  a  speed
  limit  of  less  than thirty miles an hour for certain highways within
  the community of Lido Beach

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended
by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any  subur-
ban  town  governed  pursuant to article three-A of the town law and the
town board of any other town having a population exceeding  fifty  thou-
sand,  with  respect  to  highways  (which term for the purposes of this
section shall include private roads open to public motor  vehicle  traf-
fic)  in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main-
tained by the state on which the department of transportation shall have
established higher or lower speed limits than the  statutory  fifty-five
miles per hour speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty
OF  THIS  TITLE, or on which the department of transportation shall have
designated that such towns shall not establish any maximum  speed  limit
as  provided  in  section  sixteen  hundred  twenty-four  OF THIS TITLE,
subject to the limitations imposed by section  sixteen  hundred  eighty-
four  OF  THIS  TITLE  may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regu-
lation establish maximum speed limits  at  which  vehicles  may  proceed
within  such towns, within designated areas of such towns or on or along
designated highways within such towns lower than  the  fifty-five  miles
per  hour  maximum  statutory  limit.  No  such  speed  limit applicable
throughout such towns or within designated areas of such towns shall  be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14076-03-9
              

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established  at less than thirty miles per hour, except that in the town
of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not  less  than  fifteen
miles  per  hour  on  any portion of a highway in the community known as
Point Lookout AND ON ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS IN THE
COMMUNITY  KNOWN  AS  LIDO BEACH: OCEAN BOULEVARD, ALLEVARD STREET, BATH
STREET, BUXTON STREET, CHELTENHAM STREET,  PINEHURST  STREET,  HARROGATE
STREET,  MATLOCK STREET, NANTWICK STREET, BIARRITZ STREET, ROYAT STREET,
LUCHON STREET, WOODHAIL  STREET,  LEAMINGTON  STREET,  SARATOGA  STREET,
KENSINGTON  STREET, AND PRESCOTT STREET; provided, however, that no such
speed limit in such town may be established unless  a  majority  of  the
residents  of EACH such community file a petition with the town board of
such town requesting such speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on
or along designated highways within such towns shall be  established  at
less  than  twenty-five  miles per hour, except that school speed limits
may be established at not less  than  fifteen  miles  per  hour,  for  a
distance  not  to  exceed  one  thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
on the highway, and except further that in the town of  Hempstead  speed
limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any
portion of a highway in the [community] COMMUNITIES known as Point Look-
out  AND LIDO BEACH; provided, however, that no such speed limit in such
town may be established unless a majority of the residents of EACH  such
community  file  a  petition with the town board of such town requesting
such speed limit.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.