Senate Bill S7873

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, Monroe county to lower the speed limit on state roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour

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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-S7873 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4715
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1643, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A3794
2021-2022: S2959, A3532

2019-S7873 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, Monroe county, to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.

2019-S7873 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7873 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7873
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 27, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- 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 Pittsford, town of Pittsford, county of Monroe
 
   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
 avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson  avenue
 and Taft avenue; EXCEPT THAT IN THE VILLAGE OF PITTSFORD, TOWN OF PITTS-
 FORD, COUNTY OF MONROE, SPEED LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS THAN
 TWENTY-FIVE  MILES  PER HOUR ON STATE ROADS IN THE VILLAGE OF PITTSFORD.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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