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                                  1566

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 13, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 speed limits
  in the village of East Hills,  town  of  North  Hempstead,  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03308-01-5
              

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avenue,  Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue
and Taft avenue; EXCEPT THAT IN THE VILLAGE OF EAST HILLS, TOWN OF NORTH
HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, SPEED LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS
THAN  TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON VILLAGE ROADS IN THE VILLAGE OF EAST
HILLS.  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 abutting 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.