Bill Text: NY A07372 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires department of transportation to defer to the town board of the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk, requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes on state highways, county roads, and town highways.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A07372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07372-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7372
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 14, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  chapter  399  of the laws of 2008 relating to giving
         certain Westchester county town boards the discretion to change  speed
         limits, in relation to giving the town board of the town of Riverhead,
         county of Suffolk, the discretion to change speed limits
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision  1  of  section  1  of
    2  chapter  399  of the laws of 2008 relating to giving certain Westchester
    3  county town boards the discretion to change speed limits, is amended  to
    4  read as follows:
    5    Notwithstanding  the  provisions of section sixteen hundred twenty-two
    6  of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu  of  making  a  request  of  the
    7  department  of  transportation pursuant to such section, the town boards
    8  of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, North Castle and Pound Ridge in  the
    9  county  of  Westchester,  AND THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD IN
   10  THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, with respect to town  highways  which  have  been
   11  functionally  classified  by  the  department of transportation as local
   12  roads on official functional classification maps approved by the federal
   13  highway administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the  code
   14  of  federal  regulations,  as  amended  from time to time, and which are
   15  outside of cities and villages, may by local law, ordinance, order, rule
   16  or regulation:
   17    S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1 of chapter 399 of  the  laws  of  2008
   18  relating to giving certain Westchester county town boards the discretion
   19  to change speed limits, is amended to read as follows:
   20    4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
   21  ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
   22  at  the  request  of the town boards of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro,
   23  North Castle and Pound Ridge in the county of Westchester, AND THE  TOWN
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10092-01-3
       A. 7372                             2
    1  BOARD OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, with respect to
    2  all  town  highways  within  such  towns  outside of cities and villages
    3  pursuant to subdivision one of this section, provided  that  no  maximum
    4  speed  limits have been established by such town boards pursuant to this
    5  act on any town highway functionally classified as a local  road  within
    6  such towns.
    7    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    8  have become a law.