Senate Bill S5404

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to certain speed limits and driving under the influence charges

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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-S5404 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1192 & 1630, V & T L

2017-S5404 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certain speed limits and driving under the influence charges.

2017-S5404 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5404 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5404
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ROBACH -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
   mental Conservation) -- 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 certain
   speed limits and certain driving under the influence charges

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7 of section 1192 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as added by chapter 47 of the laws of 1988  and  as  renumbered  by
 chapter 173 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  Where  applicable. The provisions of this section shall apply upon
 public highways, private roads open to [motor  vehicle  traffic]  PUBLIC
 USE and any other parking lot. For the purposes of this section "parking
 lot"  shall  mean  any  area  or  areas of private property, including a
 driveway, near or contiguous to and provided in connection with premises
 and used as a means of access to and egress from  a  public  highway  to
 such  premises  and  having  a  capacity for the parking of four or more
 motor vehicles. The provisions of this section shall not  apply  to  any
 area  or areas of private property comprising all or part of property on
 which is situated a one or two family residence, UNLESS OPEN  TO  PUBLIC
 USE.
   §  2. Subdivision 5 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by chapter 563 of the  laws  of  2002  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5. Establishment of maximum and minimum speed limits at which vehicles
 may proceed on or along such highways. No such maximum speed limit 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, with respect to  bridge
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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