Senate Bill S315

2023-2024 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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S315 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1642, V & T L

2023-S315 - Summary

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

2023-S315 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S315 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    315
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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  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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00664-01-3
              

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2023-S315A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1642, V & T L

2023-S315A (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.

2023-S315A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S315A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  315--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Transporta-
   tion  --  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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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