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                                  7346

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- 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 speed limits
  in the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, county of Monroe

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

  Section  1. Section 1643 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 412 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The  legisla-
tive  body  of  any city or village with respect to highways (which term
for the purposes of this section shall include  private  roads  open  to
public  motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than state
highways maintained by the state on which the department of  transporta-
tion shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statu-
tory  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 or village 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 regulation establish maximum speed limits at which  vehi-
cles may proceed within such city or village, within designated areas of
such city or village or on or along designated highways within such city
or  village  higher  or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour maximum
statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable throughout such city  or
village  or  within  designated  areas  of such city or village shall be
established at less than thirty miles per hour; except that in the  city
of  Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be established
at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the  following
highways  in  such  city:  Cleveland  avenue,  Harding  avenue, Mitchell
avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson  avenue
and Taft avenue; EXCEPT THAT IN THE VILLAGE OF PITTSFORD, TOWN OF PITTS-
FORD, COUNTY OF MONROE, SPEED LIMITS MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT NOT LESS THAN
TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON VILLAGE ROADS IN THE VILLAGE OF PITTSFORD.

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

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No  such  speed  limit applicable on or along designated highways within
such city or village 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  building,
entrance  or  exit  of  a school abutting on the highway and except that
within the cities of Buffalo and Rochester speed limits  may  be  estab-
lished  at  not  less  than  fifteen miles per hour for any portion of a
highway within a city park.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.