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                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2024
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 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 Lido 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 496 of the laws of 2022, 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 twenty-five 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 and on all or any portion of the following  high-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 ways  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, Sarato-
 ga  Street,  Kensington  Street, BLACKHEATH ROAD, LAGOON DRIVE EAST, 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 and Lido  Beach;  provided,  however,
 that no such speed limit in such town may be established unless a major-
 ity  of  the  residents  of each such community file a petition with the
 town board of such town requesting such speed  limit.  No  speed  limits
 shall  be  established pursuant to the provisions of this section except
 in accordance with the engineering considerations and factors for  speed
 limits  set  forth in the manual and specifications for a uniform system
 of traffic control devices maintained by the commissioner of transporta-
 tion pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of this title,  as  such
 manual and specifications may be amended from time to time, certified by
 a licensed professional engineer who specializes in traffic operations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.