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                                   7374
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 22, 2020
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT relating to giving the Moreau town board the discretion to change
   speed limits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1622 of the
 vehicle and traffic law, in lieu of making a request of  the  department
 of  transportation  pursuant to such section, the town board of the town
 of Moreau in the county of Saratoga, with respect to town highways which
 have been functionally classified by the department of transportation as
 local roads on official functional classification maps approved  by  the
 federal  highway  administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of
 the code of federal regulations, as amended from time to time, and which
 are outside of cities and villages, may by local law, ordinance,  order,
 rule or regulation:
   (a) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 along  designated town highways lower than the fifty-five miles per hour
 statutory maximum speed limit. No such 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,  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.
   (b) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 along all such town highways lying within such towns  or  within  desig-
 nated areas of such towns lower than the fifty-five miles per hour stat-
 utory  maximum  speed  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.
   2. No such speed limits shall be established except in accordance with
 the engineering considerations and factors for speed limits set forth in
 the New York state manual and specifications for  a  uniform  system  of
 traffic control devices as such manual and specifications may be amended
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 from  time  to  time,  certified by a licensed professional engineer who
 specializes in traffic operations.
   3.  For  the purposes of this section, the term "New York state manual
 and specifications for a uniform  system  of  traffic  control  devices"
 shall  mean  the  national  manual  of  uniform  traffic control devices
 promulgated by the federal highway administration  pursuant  to  subpart
 (f)  of  part 655 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations and the
 New York state supplement adopted by the commissioner of  transportation
 pursuant  to  section  1680 of the vehicle and traffic law, and the term
 "town highways" shall have the same meaning as such term is  defined  by
 subdivision 5 of section 3 of the highway law.
   4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
 ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
 at  the request of the town board of the town of Moreau in the county of
 Saratoga, with respect to all town highways within such towns outside of
 cities and  villages  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this  section,
 provided that no maximum speed limits have been established by such town
 boards  pursuant to this act on any town highway functionally classified
 as a local road within such towns.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.