Assembly Bill A4263A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes the town board of the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk to regulate speed limits in such town

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  • Introduced
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    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A4263 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2928
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1662-a, V & T L

2015-A4263 - Summary

Authorizes the town board of the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk to reduce speed limits in certain cases.

2015-A4263 - Bill Text download pdf

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

    S. 2928                                                  A. 4263

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ment

IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT in relation to authorizing the town board of  the  town  of  East
  Hampton, county of Suffolk to regulate speed limits in such town

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the  contrary,  the
town  board of the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk, may by local
law establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed  on  or
along  such  town highways in such town outside of incorporated villages
of not more than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory  maximum  speed
limit.  No such speed limit applicable on or along such designated high-
ways within such town 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 build-
ing, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07098-01-5


              

2015-A4263A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2928
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1662-a, V & T L

2015-A4263A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the town board of the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk to reduce speed limits in certain cases.

2015-A4263A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

    S. 2928--A                                            A. 4263--A
    Cal. No. 170

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ment -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance
  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee,
  ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
  by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,
  restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
  its place in the order of third reading

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
  to  the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on
  Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
  the  town  of  East  Hampton,  county  of Suffolk, to reduce the speed
  limits in certain cases

  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,  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

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

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