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                                   5703
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 26, 2017
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 Introduced  by Sen. PHILLIPS -- 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 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

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 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.