A2955-2011 Actions

• Jun 20, 2012: substituted by s3080
• Jun 20, 2012: rules report cal.510
• Jun 20, 2012: reported
• Jun 20, 2012: reported referred to rules
• Jun 20, 2012: reported referred to codes
• Jun 12, 2012: held for consideration in transportation
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to transportation
• Jan 21, 2011: referred to transportation

A2955-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2955
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 January 21, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred 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:

 

Section 1.

Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law,  as  amended
 by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:

 

S  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 thirty miles per hour, except that in the  town
 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
 
       A. 2955                             2
 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 [community] COMMUNITIES known as Point Look
 out 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.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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