Senate Bill S7374

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to giving the Moreau town board the discretion to change speed limits

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  • 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-S7374 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9124
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Saratoga County
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S2292

2019-S7374 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Gives the Moreau town board the discretion to change speed limits.

2019-S7374 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7374 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7374
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT relating to giving the Moreau town board the discretion to change
   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 1622 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 Moreau in the county of Saratoga, with respect to town highways which
 have been functionally classified by the department of transportation as
 local roads on official functional classification 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.
   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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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