STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5562
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to regulating
          speed limits in cities, towns, or villages
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The first undesignated paragraph of section 1662-a of the
     2  vehicle and traffic law is designated subdivision 1 and a  new  subdivi-
     3  sion 2 is added to read as follows:
     4    2.  Each  city, town, or village in the state of New York may by local
     5  law establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed  on  or
     6  along  such  city,  town,  or  village  highways  in such city, town, or
     7  village other than state or county highways maintained by the  state  or
     8  county  department  of  transportation,  lower than fifty-five miles per
     9  hour statutory maximum speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on or
    10  along such designated highways within such city, town, or village  shall
    11  be  established  at  less  than  twenty-five miles per hour, except that
    12  school speed limits may be established at not less  than  fifteen  miles
    13  per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty
    14  feet,  on  a  highway  passing  a school building, entrance or exit of a
    15  school abutting on the highway.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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