Senate Bill S7254

                             
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                                   7254
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 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 496 of the laws of 2022, 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 twenty-five miles per hour, except that in the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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, 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.
 No  speed limits shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this
 section except in accordance with  the  engineering  considerations  and
 factors  for speed limits set forth in the manual and specifications for
 a uniform system of traffic control devices maintained  by  the  commis-
 sioner  of  transportation pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of
 this title, as such manual and specifications may be amended  from  time
 to  time,  certified by a licensed professional engineer who specializes
 in traffic operations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.