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Jan 08, 2014 | referred to transportation |
Mar 14, 2013 | referred to transportation |
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Co-Sponsors
Dan Stec
Charles Lavine
Vivian Cook
Patricia Fahy
Multi-Sponsors
James F. Brennan
Sandy Galef
Steve Katz
Peter Lopez
A6089 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S1356
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Transportation
- Law Section:
- Vehicle and Traffic Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง1622, V & T L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010: A11086, A3587, S293
2011-2012: A3481, S547
2015-2016: S1216
2017-2018: S389
2019-2020: S1941
2021-2022: S5182
2023-2024: S25
A6089 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Provides that the town board of any town, exclusive of suburban towns and towns having a population exceeding fifty thousand, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits on town highways which have been classified by the department of transportation as local roads and which are outside of villages.
A6089 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6089 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 14, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing speed limits in towns THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows: S 1622. Speed limits on county roads and town highways. 1. The department of transportation upon the request of the county superinten- dent of highways of a county and the town board of the town or towns affected with respect to county roads and town highways in such town or towns outside of cities or villages, may by order, rule or regulation: [1.] (A) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory maximum speed limit. No such 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. [2.] (B) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or along all such highways lying within an area or areas as desig- nated by a description of the boundaries of such area or areas submitted by the county superintendent of highways of a county and the town board of the town or towns affected lower than fifty-five miles per hour stat- utory maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established at less than thirty miles per hour. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01136-01-3