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                                  6897--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              October 2, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
   limits

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (a) The department of transportation with respect  to  state  highways
 maintained  by the state outside of cities having a population in excess
 of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order,  rule
 or  regulation  establish  higher or lower maximum speed limits at which
 vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
 per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  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 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE
 BODY  OF ANY COUNTY OR, IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE BODY,
 BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY LOCATED WITHIN SAID  COUNTY,
 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  abut-
 ting on the highway. Absence of signs installed pursuant to this section
 shall  be presumptive evidence that the department of transportation has
 not established a higher maximum speed limit than the  fifty-five  miles
 per hour statutory limit.
   §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, is
 amended by chapter 563 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:

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

                                                            LBD08122-02-7

 S. 6897--A                          2
 
   1.  Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles  per  hour
 statutory  maximum  speed  limit.  No such 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 BY THE
 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY  OF  ANY  COUNTY
 OR,  IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE BODY, BY THE LEGISLATIVE
 BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY LOCATED WITHIN SAID COUNTY, 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.