New York A 7109: Relates to speed limits on state highways

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A07109 Summary:

BILL NOA07109 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00090

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SPONSORWalsh (MS)

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COSPNSRBlankenbush, Morinello, Hawley, Giglio, Sayegh, Tague, Simpson, Durso

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MLTSPNSRAngelino, DeStefano, Gallahan, Manktelow, Smullen

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Amd §§1620 & 1624, V & T L

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Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the municipality within which the section of state highway subject to such speed limit is located.

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BILL NOA07109 

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03/20/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7109

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, BLANKENBUSH, MORINELLO, HAWLEY, GIGLIO,
 SAYEGH, TAGUE, SIMPSON, DURSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGEL-
 INO, DeSTEFANO, GALLAHAN, MANKTELOW, SMULLEN -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to speed limits
 on state highways

 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. Such maximum speed limit may be
 10 established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation
 11 authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the muni-
 12 cipality within which the section of state highway subject to such maxi-
 13 mum speed limit is located. No such maximum speed limit shall be estab-
 14 lished at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed
 15 limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
 16 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
 17 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
 18 on the highway. Absence of signs installed pursuant to this section
 19 shall be presumptive evidence that the department of transportation has
 20 not established a higher maximum speed limit than the fifty-five miles
 21 per hour statutory limit.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00837-01-5

 A. 7109 2

 1 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 1624 of the vehicle and traffic law,
 2 as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (a) On any state highway maintained by the state within any city,
 5 village or suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the
 6 town law, the department of transportation may designate any such state
 7 highway or section of such highway on which any such city, village or
 8 suburban town shall not by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regu-
 9 lation establish any maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
 10 on or along such state highway. Such designation shall be pursuant to
 11 an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by
 12 the department of transportation or the city, village or suburban town
 13 within which such state highway or section of state highway is located
 14 and shall be made by an order in writing of [the] such department [of
 15 transportation] and served by mail on the mayor or supervisor or a
 16 member of the governing board of such city, village or suburban town ten
 17 days before the same shall take effect. At the expiration of ten days
 18 after service of such order upon any city, village or suburban