New York A 1754: Requires applicants for a driver's license or non-driver identification card to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant's presence in the U.S. is authorized

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A01754 Summary:

BILL NOA01754 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02713

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SPONSORShrestha

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COSPNSRSimon, Kelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1643 & 1662-a, V & T L

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Enacts "local control for speed limits"; authorizes cities, villages, and towns to adjust the speed limit to lower than fifty-five miles per hour, but not less than twenty-five miles per hour, for portions of state highways that are particularly dangerous.

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BILL NOA01754 

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01/14/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1754

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

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

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

 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 "local control for speed limits."
 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. 1. The
 6 legislative body of any city or village with respect to highways (which
 7 term for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open
 8 to public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than
 9 state highways maintained by the state on which the department of trans-
 10 portation shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the
 11 statutory 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
 24 city of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed limits may be estab-
 25 lished at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of the
 26 following highways in such city: Cleveland avenue, Harding avenue, Mitc-
 27 hell avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue, Coolidge avenue, Wilson
 28 avenue and Taft avenue. No such speed limit applicable on or along

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00521-01-5

 A. 1754 2

 1 designated highways within such city or village shall be established at
 2 less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that school speed limits
 3 may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour, for a
 4 distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
 5 highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
 6 on the highway and except that within the cities of Buffalo and Roches-
 7 ter speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per
 8 hour for any portion of a highway within a city park. No speed limits
 9 shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this section except
 10 in accordance with the engineering considerations and factors for speed
 11 limits set forth in the manual and specifications for a uniform system
 12 of traffic control devices maintained by the commissioner of transporta-
 13 tion pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of this title, as such
 14 ma