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                                   10063
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
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 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
   the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish  a  speed
   limit  of  less  than thirty miles an hour for certain highways within
   the community of East Atlantic Beach

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  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, ON ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING  HIGHWAYS  IN  THE
 COMMUNITY  KNOWN  AS  EAST ATLANTIC BEACH: BAY STREET, BROOKLINE AVENUE,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD11415-01-1
 A. 10063                            2
 
 BUFFALO AVENUE, CLAYTON AVENUE, MALONE  AVENUE,  MOHAWK  AVENUE,  OSWEGO
 AVENUE, PARK STREET, ROCHESTER AVENUE,  TRENTON AVENUE, TROY AVENUE, 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 build-
 ing, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the  highway,  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, EAST ATLANTIC BEACH 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.