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                                   2389
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- 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 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
 Point Lookout and on all or any portion of the following highways in the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD03031-01-7

 S. 2389                             2
 
 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.