New York S 8029: Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of East Atlantic Beach

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S08029 Summary:

BILL NOS08029 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04825

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SPONSORCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1662-a, V & T L

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Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of East Atlantic Beach.

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BILL NOS08029 

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8029

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
 portation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
 the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed
 limit of less than thirty miles an hour for certain highways within
 the community of East Atlantic Beach

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

 1 Section 1. Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended
 2 by chapter 496 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any subur-
 4 ban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town law and the
 5 town board of any other town having a population exceeding fifty thou-
 6 sand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this
 7 section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle traf-
 8 fic) in such towns outside any village, other than state highways main-
 9 tained by the state on which the department of transportation shall have
 10 established higher or lower speed limits than the statutory fifty-five
 11 miles per hour speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty
 12 of this title, or on which the department of transportation shall have
 13 designated that such towns shall not establish any maximum speed limit
 14 as provided in section sixteen hundred twenty-four of this title,
 15 subject to the limitations imposed by section sixteen hundred eighty-
 16 four of this title may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regu-
 17 lation establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
 18 within such towns, within designated areas of such towns or on or along
 19 designated highways within such towns lower than the fifty-five miles
 20 per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable
 21 throughout such towns or within designated areas of such towns shall be
 22 established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01771-01-5

 S. 8029 2

 1 town of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not less than
 2 fifteen miles per hour on any portion of a highway in the community
 3 known as Point Lookout, on all or any portion of the following highways
 4 in the community known as East Atlantic Beach: Bay Street, Brookline
 5 Avenue, Park Street, Rochester Avenue, Trenton Avenue, Troy Avenue, and
 6 on all or any portion of the following highways in the community known
 7 as Lido Beach: Ocean Boulevard, Allevard Street, Bath Street, Buxton
 8 Street, Cheltenham Street, Pinehurst Street, Harrogate Street, Matlock
 9 Street, Nantwick Street, Biarritz Street, Royat Street, Luchon Street,
 10 Woodhail Street, Leamington Street, Saratoga Street, Kensington Street,
 11 and Prescott Street; provided, however, that no such speed limit in such
 12 town may be established unless a majority of the residents of each such
 13 community file a petition with the town board of such town requesting
 14 such speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on or along designated
 15 highways within such towns shall be established at less than twenty-five
 16 miles per hour, except that school speed limits may be established at
 17 not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a distance not to exceed one
 18 thousand three