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                                    872
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, LUPARDO, STECK, MONTESANO, HAWLEY, STEC
   -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, LOPEZ, McLAUGHLIN,  WALTER  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
   in certain towns

   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 405 of the laws of 2012, 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] TWEN-
 TY-FIVE  thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes
 of this section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle
 traffic) in such towns outside any village, 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 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 thirty miles per hour, except 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 community known as
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD03031-01-7

 A. 872                              2
 
 Point Lookout 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 building, 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 and Lido
 Beach; 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.