Bill Text: NY S06679 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires department of transportation to defer to Malta town board requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7503 [S06679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6679
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT relating to giving the Malta town board 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.  1.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  section  sixteen
     2  hundred  twenty-two  of the vehicle and traffic law, in lieu of making a
     3  request of the department of transportation pursuant  to  such  section,
     4  the  town  board  of  the  town of Malta in the county of Saratoga, with
     5  respect to town highways which have been functionally classified by  the
     6  department of transportation as local roads on official functional clas-
     7  sification  maps approved by the federal highway administration pursuant
     8  to part 470.105 of title 23 of  the  code  of  federal  regulations,  as
     9  amended from time to time, and which are outside of cities and villages,
    10  may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation:
    11    (a) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
    12  along  designated town highways lower than the fifty-five miles per hour
    13  statutory maximum speed limit. No such limit  shall  be  established  at
    14  less  than  twenty-five  miles per hour, except that school speed limits
    15  may be established at not less  than  fifteen  miles  per  hour,  for  a
    16  distance  not  to  exceed  one  thousand three hundred twenty feet, on a
    17  highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of a school abutting
    18  on the highway.
    19    (b) Establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or
    20  along all such town highways lying within such towns  or  within  desig-
    21  nated areas of such towns lower than the fifty-five miles per hour stat-
    22  utory  maximum  speed  limit.  No such speed limit applicable throughout
    23  such towns or within designated areas of such towns shall be established
    24  at less than thirty miles per hour.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    2. No such speed limits shall be established except in accordance with
     2  the engineering considerations and factors for speed limits set forth in
     3  the New York state manual and specifications for  a  uniform  system  of
     4  traffic control devices as such manual and specifications may be amended
     5  from  time  to  time,  certified by a licensed professional engineer who
     6  specializes in traffic operations.
     7    3. For the purposes of this section, the term "New York  state  manual
     8  and  specifications  for  a  uniform  system of traffic control devices"
     9  shall mean the  national  manual  of  uniform  traffic  control  devices
    10  promulgated  by  the  federal highway administration pursuant to subpart
    11  (f) of part 655 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations  and  the
    12  New  York state supplement adopted by the commissioner of transportation
    13  pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of the  vehicle  and  traffic
    14  law,  and  the  term "town highways" shall have the same meaning as such
    15  term is defined by subdivision five of section three of the highway law.
    16    4. Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to alter the authori-
    17  ty of the department of transportation to establish maximum speed limits
    18  at the request of the town board of the town of Malta in the  county  of
    19  Saratoga, with respect to all town highways within such towns outside of
    20  cities  and  villages  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this section,
    21  provided that no maximum speed limits have been established by such town
    22  boards pursuant to this act on any town highway functionally  classified
    23  as a local road within such towns.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    26  ly,  the  department  of  transportation  is  authorized and directed to
    27  promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the implemen-
    28  tation of this act on its effective date.