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                                  1416--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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  27  of  subdivision  (a)  of
 section  1642  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 248
 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Establishment of maximum speed limits below twenty-five miles  per
 hour at which motor vehicles may proceed on or along designated highways
 within  such city for the explicit purpose of implementing traffic calm-
 ing measures as such term is defined herein OR FOR THE EXPLICIT  PURPOSE
 OF  IMPLEMENTING  AN OPEN STREET; provided, however, that no speed limit
 shall be set below fifteen miles per hour nor shall such speed limit  be
 established where the traffic calming measure to be implemented consists
 solely  of  a traffic control sign, AND PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT NO SPEED
 LIMIT SHALL BE SET BELOW FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON AN OPEN STREET.   Estab-
 lishment of such a speed limit shall, where applicable, be in compliance
 with  the provisions of sections sixteen hundred twenty-four and sixteen
 hundred eighty-four of this [chapter] ARTICLE. Nothing contained  herein
 shall  be  deemed  to  alter or affect the establishment of school speed
 limits pursuant to the provisions of section sixteen hundred forty-three
 of this article. For the purposes of this  paragraph,  "traffic  calming
 measures"  shall  mean any physical engineering measure or measures that
 reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver  behavior
 and  improve conditions for non-motorized street users such as pedestri-
 ans and bicyclists, AND "OPEN STREET" SHALL MEAN A STREET OR SEGMENT  OF
 A STREET DESIGNATED BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00664-02-3
              

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 SUCH PURSUANT TO SECTION 19-107.1 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK, ON WHICH MOTOR VEHICLE ACCESS IS CONTROLLED BY BARRIERS AND
 SIGNAGE  OR  OTHER  TRAFFIC  CALMING  MEASURES, AND ON WHICH PRIORITY IS
 GIVEN  TO PEDESTRIANS, INDIVIDUALS USING BICYCLES, AND OTHER NON-VEHICU-
 LAR STREET USERS.
   § 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.