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                                   6839
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2021
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 Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD11415-01-1

 S. 6839                             2
 
 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,
 BUFFALO  AVENUE,  CLAYTON  AVENUE,  MALONE AVENUE, MOHAWK AVENUE, OSWEGO
 AVENUE, PARK STREET, ROCHESTER AVENUE,  TRENTON AVENUE, TROY AVENUE, 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 build-
 ing, 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, EAST ATLANTIC BEACH and Lido  Beach;
 provided,  however,  that no such speed limit in such town may be estab-
 lished 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.