S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4905
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, DiPIETRO, LAVINE, FINCH, CROUCH,
BRABENEC, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY,
B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
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 OR SCHOOL DISTRICT 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. Absence of signs installed
pursuant to this section shall be presumptive evidence that the depart-
ment of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed limit
than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02687-02-9