Assembly Bill A10063

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of East Atlantic Beach

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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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2021-A10063 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6839
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1662-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1159, S7254

2021-A10063 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of East Atlantic Beach.

2021-A10063 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10063
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
   the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish  a  speed
   limit  of  less  than thirty miles an hour for certain highways within
   the community of East Atlantic Beach

   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  thou-
 sand,  with  respect  to  highways  (which term for the purposes of this
 section shall include private roads open to public motor  vehicle  traf-
 fic)  in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main-
 tained 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, ON ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING  HIGHWAYS  IN  THE
 COMMUNITY  KNOWN  AS  EAST ATLANTIC BEACH: BAY STREET, BROOKLINE AVENUE,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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