Assembly Bill A4554

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for establishment of school speed limits by county legislative body

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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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2017-A4554 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1620, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6908
2011-2012: A6198
2013-2014: A4902
2015-2016: A5205
2019-2020: A4905
2021-2022: A4205
2023-2024: A1483

2017-A4554 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.

2017-A4554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4554
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, DiPIETRO, LAVINE, McLAUGHLIN, FINCH,
   CROUCH,  BRABENEC,  GIGLIO,  ERRIGO  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   BARCLAY, HAWLEY, LUPINACCI, B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
   limits

   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. No such maximum speed limit
 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 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR BY THE LEGISLATIVE
 BODY OF ANY COUNTY OR, IF SO DELEGATED BY SUCH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE  BODY,
 BY  THE  LEGISLATIVE BODY OF ANY MUNICIPALITY OR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOCATED
 WITHIN SAID COUNTY, 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  depart-
 ment  of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed limit
 than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08122-01-7

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