Assembly Bill A1246

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Reduces the speed limit to twenty-five miles per hour in cities, villages and towns

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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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2021-A1246 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1643, 1662-a, 1271 & 1622, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8600

2021-A1246 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the speed limit to twenty-five miles per hour in cities, villages and towns.

2021-A1246 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1246
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN, DINOWITZ, JACOBSON, WOERNER, THIELE,
   MORINELLO, WALCZYK, BYRNES, GOTTFRIED, SMULLEN,  FAHY  --  Multi-Spon-
   sored  by  -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to reducing the
   speed limit to twenty-five miles per  hour  in  cities,  villages  and
   towns
 
   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 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] TWENTY-FIVE  miles  per  hour;  except
 that  in  the  city of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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