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                                  315--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sens. SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Transporta-
   tion  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
   a  five  mile per hour speed limit for open streets in cities having a
   population in excess of one million
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (a)  of  paragraph 27 of subdivision (a) of
 section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by  chapter  248
 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Establishment of maximum speed limits below twenty-five miles per
 hour at which motor vehicles may proceed on or along designated highways
 within such city for the explicit purpose of implementing traffic  calm-
 ing  measures as such term is defined herein OR FOR THE EXPLICIT PURPOSE
 OF IMPLEMENTING AN OPEN STREET; provided, however, that no  speed  limit
 shall  be set below fifteen miles per hour nor shall such speed limit be
 established where the traffic calming measure to be implemented consists
 solely of a traffic control sign, AND PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT  NO  SPEED
 LIMIT  SHALL BE SET BELOW FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON AN OPEN STREET.  Estab-
 lishment of such a speed limit shall, where applicable, be in compliance
 with the provisions of sections sixteen hundred twenty-four and  sixteen
 hundred  eighty-four of this [chapter] ARTICLE. Nothing contained herein
 shall be deemed to alter or affect the  establishment  of  school  speed
 limits pursuant to the provisions of section sixteen hundred forty-three
 of  this  article.  For the purposes of this paragraph, "traffic calming
 measures" shall mean any physical engineering measure or  measures  that
 reduce  the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior
 and improve conditions for non-motorized street users such as  pedestri-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ans  and bicyclists, AND "OPEN STREET" SHALL MEAN A STREET OR SEGMENT OF
 A STREET DESIGNATED BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AS
 SUCH PURSUANT TO SECTION 19-107.1 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK, ON WHICH MOTOR VEHICLE ACCESS IS CONTROLLED BY BARRIERS AND
 SIGNAGE  OR  OTHER  TRAFFIC  CALMING  MEASURES, AND ON WHICH PRIORITY IS
 GIVEN TO PEDESTRIANS, INDIVIDUALS USING BICYCLES, AND OTHER  NON-VEHICU-
 LAR STREET USERS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.