Assembly Bill A872

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the speed limits in certain towns

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • 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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2017-A872 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2389
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1662-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A4849, S3992
2015-2016: A1191, S2204
2019-2020: A3653

2017-A872 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the speed limits in certain towns.

2017-A872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    872
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, LUPARDO, STECK, MONTESANO, HAWLEY, STEC
   -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, LOPEZ, McLAUGHLIN,  WALTER  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
   in certain towns

   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:
   §  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] TWEN-
 TY-FIVE  thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes
 of this section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle
 traffic) in such towns outside any village, other  than  state  highways
 maintained  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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