Assembly Bill A9695

                             
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                                   9695
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
   for any portion of a highway within a city, village or town park
 
   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. No such speed limit applicable on or  along  designated
 highways  within  such city or village shall be established at less than
 twenty-five miles per hour, except  that  school  speed  limits  may  be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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
 [and],  except  that  within  the  cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed
 limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles  per  hour  for
 any  portion  of  a  highway within a city park, AND EXCEPT THAT A SPEED
 LIMIT MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS THAN FIFTEEN MILES   PER  HOUR  FOR
 ANY PORTION OF A HIGHWAY WITHIN A CITY OR VILLAGE PARK.
   §  2.  Section  1662-a  of  the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter 405 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   § 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any  subur-
 ban  town  governed  pursuant to article three-A of the town law and the
 town board of any other town having a population exceeding  fifty  thou-
 sand,  with  respect  to  highways  (which term for the purposes of this
 section shall include private roads open to public motor  vehicle  traf-
 fic)  in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main-
 tained by the state on which the department of transportation shall have
 established higher or lower speed limits than the  statutory  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 towns 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 regu-
 lation establish maximum speed limits  at  which  vehicles  may  proceed
 within  such towns, within designated areas of such towns or on or along
 designated highways within such towns lower than  the  fifty-five  miles
 per  hour  maximum  statutory  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, except that in the town
 of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not  less  than  fifteen
 miles  per  hour  on  any portion of a highway in the community known as
 Point Lookout and on all or any portion of the following highways in the
 community known as Lido Beach: Ocean Boulevard,  Allevard  Street,  Bath
 Street,  Buxton  Street,  Cheltenham Street, Pinehurst Street, Harrogate
 Street, Matlock Street, Nantwick Street, Biarritz Street, Royat  Street,
 Luchon  Street,  Woodhail  Street,  Leamington  Street, Saratoga Street,
 Kensington Street, and Prescott Street; provided, however, that no  such
 speed  limit  in  such  town may be established unless a majority of the
 residents of each such community file a petition with the town board  of
 such town requesting such speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on
 or  along  designated highways within such towns 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, EXCEPT THAT A SPEED LIMIT MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS
 THAN  FIFTEEN  MILES  PER HOUR ON ANY PORTION OF A HIGHWAY WITHIN A TOWN
 PARK and except further that in the town of Hempstead speed  limits  may
 be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of
 a  highway  in  the  communities  known as Point Lookout and Lido Beach;
 provided, however, that no such speed limit in such town may  be  estab-
 lished  unless a majority of the residents of each such community file a
 petition with the town board of such town requesting such speed limit.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.