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                                   8489
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 7, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT relating to authorizing the Knox town board to establish  certain
   speed limits
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  1.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section  sixteen
 hundred  twenty-two  of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu of making a
 request of the department of transportation pursuant  to  such  section,
 the town board of the town of Knox in the county of Albany, with respect
 to  town highways which have been functionally classified by the depart-
 ment of transportation as local roads on official functional classifica-
 tion maps approved by the federal  highway  administration  pursuant  to
 part  470.105 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations, as amended
 from time to time, and which are outside of cities and villages, may  by
 local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation:
   (a) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 along  designated town highways 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,  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.
   (b) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 along all such town highways lying within such towns  or  within  desig-
 nated areas of such towns lower than the fifty-five miles per hour stat-
 utory  maximum  speed  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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   2. No such speed limits shall be established except in accordance with
 the engineering considerations and factors for speed limits set forth in
 the New York state manual and specifications for  a  uniform  system  of
 traffic control devices as such manual and specifications may be amended
 from  time  to  time,  certified by a licensed professional engineer who
 specializes in traffic operations.
   3. For the purposes of this section, the term "New York  state  manual
 and  specifications  for  a  uniform  system of traffic control devices"
 shall mean the  national  manual  of  uniform  traffic  control  devices
 promulgated  by  the  federal highway administration pursuant to subpart
 (f) of part 655 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations  and  the
 New  York state supplement adopted by the commissioner of transportation
 pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  and  the  term "town highways" shall have the same meaning as such
 term is defined by subdivision five of section three of the highway law.
   4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
 ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
 at the request of the town board of the town of Knox in  the  county  of
 Albany,  with  respect to all town highways within such towns outside of
 cities and  villages  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this  section,
 provided that no maximum speed limits have been established by such town
 boards  pursuant to this act on any town highway functionally classified
 as a local road within such towns.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective  immediately,  the  department  of
 transportation is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as
 are necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date.