S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5982
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to raising the
speed limit from five miles per hour to fifteen miles per hour in toll
plazas
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
as follows:
5. Establishment of maximum and minimum speed limits at which vehicles
may proceed on or along such highways. No such maximum speed limit 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 that, with respect to bridge
and elevated structures that are a part of any such highway, a lower
maximum speed limit may be established if it is determined that such
lower maximum speed limit is the maximum speed limit which may be main-
tained without structural damage to such bridge or structure, and except
that, with respect to any highway under the jurisdiction of the office
of parks, recreation and historic preservation, other than a parkway as
defined in subdivision seventeen of section 1.03 of the parks, recre-
ation and historic preservation law, the department of agriculture and
markets or the industrial exhibit authority, a maximum speed limit of
not less than ten miles per hour may be established on any portion ther-
eof, if it is determined that such lower maximum speed limit is neces-
sary to assure the safety of the public, and except that, with respect
to any highway having toll plazas, a maximum speed limit of not less
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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than [five] FIFTEEN miles per hour may be established for passage
through such toll plazas.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.