NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2388
SPONSOR: Brabenec TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to regulating
speed limits in cities, towns, or villages
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Authorizes all towns to establish speed limits.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Section 1662-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to
allow for all towns to establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles
may proceed on highways within such towns lower than the fifty-five
miles per hour statutory limit. Also any town which establishes speed
limits shall pass a town board resolution and then register with the
department of transportation.
JUSTIFICATION:
No one knows better about how to maintain, enforce laws and respond to
public concern regarding locally town owned roads than the munici-
palities who own them. Towns should have the ability to set speed limits
on town owned roads.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: A5407he1d for consideration in Transportation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall effect immediately, provided, however, that the commis-
sioner of motor vehicles and the commissioner of transportation shall
promulgate any necessary rules, regulations or amendments necessary for
the Implementation of this act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2388
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to regulating
speed limits in cities, towns, or villages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 1662-a of the
2 vehicle and traffic law is designated subdivision 1 and a new subdivi-
3 sion 2 is added to read as follows:
4 2. Each city, town, or village in the state of New York may by local
5 law establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
6 along such city, town, or village highways in such city, town, or
7 village other than state or county highways maintained by the state or
8 county department of transportation, lower than fifty-five miles per
9 hour statutory maximum speed limit. No such speed limit applicable on or
10 along such designated highways within such city, town, or village shall
11 be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except that
12 school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles
13 per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred twenty
14 feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a
15 school abutting on the highway.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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