S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7563
I N S E N A T E
May 10, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee 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.
