New York S 544: Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study on the distribution of traffic fines

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S00544 Summary:

BILL NOS00544 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSTEC

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Amd §1622, V & T L

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Provides that the town board of any town, exclusive of suburban towns and towns having a population exceeding fifty thousand, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits on town highways which have been classified by the department of transportation as local roads and which are outside of villages.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 544

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. STEC -- 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 establishing
 speed limits in towns

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 1622 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 2 chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 563
 3 of the laws of 2002, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 496 of the laws
 4 of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 1622. Speed limits on county roads and town highways. 1. The
 6 department of transportation upon the request of the county superinten-
 7 dent of highways of a county and the town board of the town or towns
 8 affected with respect to county roads and town highways in such town or
 9 towns outside of cities or villages, may by order, rule or regulation:
 10 [1.] (a) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
 11 on or along such highways higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per
 12 hour statutory maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established
 13 at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits
 14 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
 15 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
 16 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
 17 on the highway.
 18 [2.] (b) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
 19 on or along all such highways lying within an area or areas as desig-
 20 nated by a description of the boundaries of such area or areas submitted
 21 by the county superintendent of highways of a county and the town board
 22 of the town or towns affected lower than fifty-five miles per hour stat-
 23 utory maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established at less
 24 than twenty-five miles per hour.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02340-01-5

 S. 544 2

 1 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this
 2 section, in lieu of making a request of the department of transportation
 3 pursuant to such subdivision, the town board of any town, exclusive of
 4 suburban towns and towns having a population exceeding fifty thousand,
 5 with respect to town highways which have been functionally classified by
 6 the department of transportation as local roads on official functional
 7 classification maps approved by the federal highway administration
 8 pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations,
 9 as amended from time to time, and which are outside of cities and
 10 villages, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation:
 11 (i) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
 12 along such highways lower than the fifty-five miles per hour statutory
 13 maximum speed limit. No such limit shall be established at less than
 14 twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits may be
 15 established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not
 16 to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a highway passing a
 17 school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway.
 18 (ii) E