S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2155
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 20, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 school speed
limits
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. No such maximum speed 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 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE
BODY OF ANY COUNTY OR, IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE BODY,
BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY LOCATED WITHIN SAID COUNTY,
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 abut-
ting 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 1 of section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
follows:
1. Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY COUNTY
OR, IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE BODY, BY THE LEGISLATIVE
BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY LOCATED WITHIN SAID COUNTY, 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.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.