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Senate Bill S9569

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million

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2021-S9569 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10647
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1642, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A1416
2025-2026: A167

2021-S9569 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing a five mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a population in excess of one million.

2021-S9569 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9569 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9569
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              October 3, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
   a  five  mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a
   population in excess of one million
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (a)  of  paragraph 26 of subdivision (a) of
 section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 248  of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  With  respect  to  highways  (which term for the purposes of this
 paragraph shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle traf-
 fic) in such city, other than state highways maintained 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
 city 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, establish-
 ment of maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed  within  such
 city  or  within  designated areas of such city higher or lower than the
 fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such  speed  limit
 applicable  throughout such city or within designated areas of such city
 shall be established at less than twenty-five  miles  per  hour,  except
 that  school  speed  limits  may  be established at no less than fifteen
 miles per hour pursuant to the provisions  of  section  sixteen  hundred
 forty-three  of  this  article AND EXCEPT THAT OPEN STREETS SPEED LIMITS
 MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NO LESS THAN FIVE MILES PER HOUR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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