Assembly Bill A8158

                            
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                                  8158

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             August 30, 2013
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Introduced  by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
  all towns to establish speed limits

  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 405 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1662-a.  Speed  limits in [certain] towns. 1. The town board of any
[suburban] town [governed pursuant to article three-A of  the  town  law
and the town board of any other town having a population exceeding fifty
thousand,] 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
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11583-01-3
              

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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 communities known as Point Lookout 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.
  2. ANY TOWN WHICH ESTABLISHES SPEED LIMITS SHALL  PASS  A  TOWN  BOARD
RESOLUTION AND THEN REGISTER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
the commissioner of motor vehicles and the commissioner  of  transporta-
tion  shall  promulgate  any  necessary rules, regulations or amendments
necessary for the implementation of this act.