§ 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any
suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town law and
the town board of any other town having a population exceeding fifty
thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this
section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle
traffic) in such towns outside any village, other than state highways
maintained 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 regulation 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 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 building,
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
majority of the residents of each such community file a petition with
the town board of such town requesting such speed limit.