Bill Text: NY A04905 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4905 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of school speed limits of not less than fifteen miles per hour by the legislative body of any county or, if so delegated, by the legislative body of any locality within said county on a portion of a state highway passing a school building.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A04905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04905-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4905
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BLANKENBUSH, DiPIETRO, LAVINE, FINCH, CROUCH,
          BRABENEC, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BARCLAY,  HAWLEY,
          B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to school speed
          limits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1620 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a) The department of transportation with respect  to  state  highways
     5  maintained  by the state outside of cities having a population in excess
     6  of one million, and highways on Indian reservations, may by order,  rule
     7  or  regulation  establish  higher or lower maximum speed limits at which
     8  vehicles may proceed on or along such highways than the fifty-five miles
     9  per hour statutory maximum speed limit.  No  such  maximum  speed  limit
    10  shall  be  established  at  less than twenty-five miles per hour, except
    11  that school speed limits may be established at  not  less  than  fifteen
    12  miles per hour by the department of transportation or by the legislative
    13  body  of any county or, if so delegated by such county legislative body,
    14  by the legislative body of any municipality or school  district  located
    15  within  said  county,  for  a  distance not to exceed one thousand three
    16  hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or
    17  exit of a school abutting on the highway.  Absence  of  signs  installed
    18  pursuant  to this section shall be presumptive evidence that the depart-
    19  ment of transportation has not established a higher maximum speed  limit
    20  than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02687-02-9