New York A 1615: Relates to area speed limits

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A01615 Summary:

BILL NOA01615A

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SAME ASSAME AS S03882-A

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SPONSORShrestha

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COSPNSRLevenberg, Steck, Shimsky, Bichotte Hermelyn, Kelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1643 & 1662-a, V & T L

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Enacts the "area speed limits act"; relates to factors for setting area speed limits.

Go to top A01615 Actions:

BILL NOA01615A

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01/10/2025referred to transportation

04/30/2025amend and recommit to transportation

04/30/2025print number 1615a

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1615--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SHRESTHA, LEVENBERG, STECK, SHIMSKY,
 BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Trans-
 portation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to area speed
 limits

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "area speed limits act".
 3 § 2. Section 1643 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
 4 ter 496 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The legisla-
 6 tive body of any city or village with respect to highways (which term
 7 for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open to
 8 public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than state
 9 highways maintained by the state on which the department of transporta-
 10 tion shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statu-
 11 tory fifty-five miles per hour speed limit as provided in section
 12 sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on which the department of
 13 transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall not
 14 establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred
 15 twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by section
 16 sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local law, ordinance,
 17 order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at which vehi-
 18 cles may proceed within such city or village, within designated areas of
 19 such city or village or on or along designated highways within such city
 20 or village higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour maximum
 21 statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable throughout such city or
 22 village or within designated areas of such city or village shall be
 23 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.
 LBD00541-03-5

 A. 1615--A 2

 1 city of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be estab-
 2 lished at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the
 3 following highways in such city: Cleveland avenue, Harding avenue, Mitc-
 4 hell avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson
 5 avenue and Taft avenue. No such speed limit applicable on or along
 6 designated highways within such city or village shall be established at
 7 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits
 8 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
 9 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
 10 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
 11 on the highway and except that within the cities of Buffalo and Roches-
 12 ter speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per
 13 hour for any portion of a highway within a city park. [No speed limits
 14 shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this section except
 15 in accordance with the engineering considerations and factors for speed
 16 limits set forth in the manual and specifications for a uniform system
 17 of traffic control devices maintained by the commissioner of transporta-