New York Assembly Bill A05457 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5457 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2023 ___________ 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 authorizing local school districts and municipalities to determine and establish 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, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred 13 twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of 14 a school abutting on the highway. The local school district and munici- 15 pality within which a school is located shall determine and establish 16 the maximum speed at which vehicles may proceed on a highway located in 17 a school zone. Absence of signs installed pursuant to this section shall 18 be presumptive evidence that the department of transportation has not 19 established a higher maximum speed limit than the fifty-five miles per 20 hour statutory limit. 21 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 22 amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as 23 follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08888-01-3 
 A. 5457 2 1 1. Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or 2 along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour 3 statutory maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established at 4 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits 5 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a 6 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a 7 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting 8 on the highway. The local school district and municipality within which 9 a school is located shall determine and establish the maximum speed at 10 which vehicles may proceed on a highway located in a school zone. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.