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                                   7538
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
   in  the  village  of  Flower  Hill, 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:
   § 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.
              

                                                            LBD11174-01-7

 A. 7538                             2
 
 avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson  avenue
 and  Taft  avenue;  EXCEPT  THAT  IN THE VILLAGE OF FLOWER HILL, 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  FLOWER HILL.   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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.