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Assembly Bill A7372

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires department of transportation to defer to the town board of the town of Riverhead, requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes on state highways, county roads, and town highways

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2013-A7372 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4577
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Suffolk County
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1, Chap 399 of 2008
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6353, S4485
2017-2018: A6184, S2626
2019-2020: A5806, S3329

2013-A7372 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires department of transportation to defer to the town board of the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk, requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes on state highways, county roads, and town highways.

2013-A7372 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7372

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 14, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

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:

  Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision  1  of  section  1  of
chapter  399  of the laws of 2008 relating to giving certain Westchester
county town boards the discretion to change speed limits, is amended  to
read as follows:
  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of section sixteen hundred twenty-two
of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu  of  making  a  request  of  the
department  of  transportation pursuant to such section, the town boards
of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, North Castle and Pound Ridge in  the
county  of  Westchester,  AND THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD IN
THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, with respect to town  highways  which  have  been
functionally  classified  by  the  department of transportation as local
roads on official functional classification maps approved by the federal
highway administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the  code
of  federal  regulations,  as  amended  from time to time, and which are
outside of cities and villages, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule
or regulation:
  S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1 of chapter 399 of  the  laws  of  2008
relating to giving certain Westchester county town boards the discretion
to change speed limits, is amended to read as follows:
  4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
at  the  request  of the town boards of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro,
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.
                                                           LBD10092-01-3

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