Bill Text: NY S03080 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of Lido Beach.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-08-17 - SIGNED CHAP.405 [S03080 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S03080-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3080 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 8, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKELOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation 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: 1 Section 1. Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended 2 by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any subur- 4 ban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town law and the 5 town board of any other town having a population exceeding fifty thou- 6 sand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this 7 section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle traf- 8 fic) in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main- 9 tained by the state on which the department of transportation shall have 10 established higher or lower speed limits than the statutory fifty-five 11 miles per hour speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty 12 OF THIS TITLE, or on which the department of transportation shall have 13 designated that such towns shall not establish any maximum speed limit 14 as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty-four OF THIS TITLE, 15 subject to the limitations imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty- 16 four OF THIS TITLE may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regu- 17 lation establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed 18 within such towns, within designated areas of such towns or on or along 19 designated highways within such towns lower than the fifty-five miles 20 per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable 21 throughout such towns or within designated areas of such towns shall be 22 established at less than thirty miles per hour, except that in the town 23 of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04203-01-1 S. 3080 2 1 miles per hour on any portion of a highway in the community known as 2 Point Lookout AND ON ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS IN THE 3 COMMUNITY KNOWN AS LIDO BEACH: OCEAN BOULEVARD, ALLEVARD STREET, BATH 4 STREET, BUXTON STREET, CHELTENHAM STREET, PINEHURST STREET, HARROGATE 5 STREET, MATLOCK STREET, NANTWICK STREET, BIARRITZ STREET, ROYAT STREET, 6 LUCHON STREET, WOODHAIL STREET, LEAMINGTON STREET, SARATOGA STREET, 7 KENSINGTON STREET, AND PRESCOTT STREET; provided, however, that no such 8 speed limit in such town may be established unless a majority of the 9 residents of EACH such community file a petition with the town board of 10 such town requesting such speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on 11 or along designated highways within such towns shall be established at 12 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits 13 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a 14 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a 15 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting 16 on the highway, and except further that in the town of Hempstead speed 17 limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any 18 portion of a highway in the [community] COMMUNITIES known as Point Look- 19 out AND LIDO BEACH; provided, however, that no such speed limit in such 20 town may be established unless a majority of the residents of EACH such 21 community file a petition with the town board of such town requesting 22 such speed limit. 23 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.