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                                  4715--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNES, ASHBY, SAYEGH, SALKA, McDONOUGH, D'URSO,
   LAWRENCE -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO,  MANKTELOW,
   B. MILLER,  MORINELLO  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
   Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 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:
   §  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD07074-02-0

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 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 STATE ROADS IN THE VILLAGE OF PITTSFORD.
 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.