Assembly Bill A10405

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10405

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
  the town of Lewisboro, in the county of Westchester,  to  establish  a
  speed limit of not less than twenty-five miles per hour on town roads

  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. 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 AND THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO, IN THE COUNTY OF WEST-
CHESTER,  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
community known as Lido Beach: Ocean Boulevard,  Allevard  Street,  Bath

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

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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; AND EXCEPT THAT IN  THE  TOWN  OF
LEWISBORO  SPEED  LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE
MILES PER HOUR THROUGHOUT SUCH TOWN OR WITHIN DESIGNATED AREAS  OF  SUCH
TOWN.    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 major-
ity 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.