New York A 1973: Allows non-public schools to apply for school zone speed limits

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A01973 Summary:

BILL NOA01973 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMaher

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1620, 1622 & 1643, V & T L

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Allows non-public schools to apply for school zone speed limits on the road that such school is located on.

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BILL NOA01973 

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01/14/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1973

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
 non-public schools to apply for school zone 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. For the purposes of this subdivision,
 15 "school" shall also include non-public schools. Absence of signs
 16 installed pursuant to this section shall be presumptive evidence that
 17 the department of transportation has not established a higher maximum
 18 speed limit than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory limit.
 19 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 20 amended by chapter 563 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
 21 follows:
 22 1. Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 23 along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour
 24 statutory maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established at
 25 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04976-01-5

 A. 1973 2

 1 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
 2 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
 3 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
 4 on the highway. For the purposes of this subdivision, "school" shall
 5 also include non-public schools.
 6 § 3. Section 1643 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
 7 ter 496 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 8 § 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The legisla-
 9 tive body of any city or village with respect to highways (which term
 10 for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open to
 11 public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than state
 12 highways maintained by the state on which the department of transporta-
 13 tion shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statu-
 14 tory fifty-five miles per hour speed limit as provided in section
 15 sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on which the department of
 16 transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall not
 17 establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred
 18 twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by section
 19 sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local law, ordinance,
 20 order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at which vehi-