S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8609
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
December 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
in the village of Roslyn Estates, county of Nassau
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 1643 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 412 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
S 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The legisla-
tive body of any city or village with respect to highways (which term
for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open to
public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than state
highways maintained by the state on which the department of transporta-
tion shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statu-
tory 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 city or village 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 regulation establish maximum speed limits at which vehi-
cles may proceed within such city or village, within designated areas of
such city or village or on or along designated highways within such city
or village higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour maximum
statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable throughout such city or
village or within designated areas of such city or village shall be
established at less than thirty miles per hour; except that in the city
of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be established
at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the following
highways in such city: Cleveland avenue, Harding avenue, Mitchell
avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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and Taft avenue; EXCEPT THAT IN THE VILLAGE OF ROSLYN ESTATES, IN THE
COUNTY OF NASSAU, SPEED LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS THAN TWEN-
TY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR IN SUCH VILLAGE. No such speed limit applicable
on or along designated highways within such city or village 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 abut-
ting on the highway and except that within the cities of Buffalo and
Rochester speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles
per hour for any portion of a highway within a city park.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.