Senate Bill S555

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to speed limits on state highways

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • 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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2019-S555 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A906
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1620 & 1624, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10280
2011-2012: A1622
2013-2014: A6182
2015-2016: A3778
2017-2018: S4605, A5861
2021-2022: S223, A3267
2023-2024: S46, A2291

2019-S555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the municipality within which the section of state highway subject to such speed limit is located.

2019-S555 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    555
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. TEDISCO, RITCHIE -- 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
   on state highways

   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.  SUCH MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT MAY BE
 ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  AN  ENGINEERING  AND/OR TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION
 AUTHORIZED OR PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR THE MUNI-
 CIPALITY WITHIN WHICH THE SECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY SUBJECT TO SUCH MAXI-
 MUM SPEED LIMIT IS LOCATED. No such maximum speed limit shall be  estab-
 lished 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. 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 (a) of section 1624 of the vehicle and traffic law,
 as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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