Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 05, 2016 |
referred to transportation delivered to assembly passed senate |
May 04, 2016 |
advanced to third reading |
May 03, 2016 |
2nd report cal. |
Apr 12, 2016 |
1st report cal.594 |
Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to transportation returned to senate died in assembly |
May 28, 2015 |
referred to transportation delivered to assembly passed senate |
May 27, 2015 |
ordered to third reading cal.974 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Jan 22, 2015 |
referred to transportation |
Senate Bill S2204
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2015-S2204 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S2204 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2204 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits in certain towns PURPOSE: This bill would allow town boards in towns of more than 25,000 the ability to set speed limits on their own town roads and highways. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to reduce the population size of a town authorized to adjust speed limits on town roads and highways to 25,000. EXISTING LAW: A town with a population exceeding 50,000 has the authority to adjust speed limits on town roads and highways. Towns with populations under 50,000 must request an adjustment and receive approval from the New York State Department of Transportation before a speed limit can be changed. JUSTIFICATION:
2015-S2204 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2204 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- 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 speed limits in certain towns 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 405 of the laws of 2012, 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] TWEN- TY-FIVE 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 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 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01996-01-5
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