Assembly Bill A3778

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to speed limits on state highways

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  • 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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2015-A3778 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1620 & 1624, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10280
2011-2012: A1622
2013-2014: A6182
2017-2018: A5861
2019-2020: A906
2021-2022: A3267
2023-2024: A2291

2015-A3778 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the municipality within which the section of state highway subject to such speed limit is located.

2015-A3778 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3778

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. TEDISCO, LOPEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
  on state highways

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  (a)  The  department  of transportation with respect to state highways
maintained by the state outside of cities having a population in  excess
of  one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order, rule
or regulation establish higher or lower maximum speed  limits  at  which
vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  SUCH MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT MAY BE
ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  AN  ENGINEERING  AND/OR TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION
AUTHORIZED OR PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR THE MUNI-
CIPALITY WITHIN WHICH THE SECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY SUBJECT TO SUCH MAXI-
MUM SPEED LIMIT IS LOCATED. No such maximum speed limit shall be  estab-
lished 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 building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
on the highway. Absence of signs  installed  pursuant  to  this  section
shall  be presumptive evidence that the department of transportation has
not established a higher maximum speed limit than the  fifty-five  miles
per hour statutory limit.
  S  2.  Subdivision (a) of section 1624 of the vehicle and traffic law,
as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02629-01-5

              

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