§ 1643 — Speed limits on highways in cities and villages

New York § 1643

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law VAT: Vehicle & Traffic
• Title 8: Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
• Art. 39: Regulation of Traffic By Cities and Villages

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§ 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The\nlegislative body of any city or village with respect to highways (which\nterm for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open\nto public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than\nstate highways maintained by the state on which the department of\ntransportation shall have established higher or lower speed limits than\nthe statutory fifty-five miles per hour speed limit as provided in\nsection sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on which the department\nof transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall\nnot establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen\nhundred twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by\nsection sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local law,\nordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at\nwhich vehicles may proceed within such city or village, within\ndesignated areas of such city or village or on or along designated\nhighways within such city or village higher or lower than the fifty-five\nmiles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable\nthroughout such city or village or within designated areas of such city\nor village shall be established at less than thirty miles per hour;\nexcept that in the city of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed\nlimits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any\nportion of the following highways in such city: Cleveland avenue,\nHarding avenue, Mitchell avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue,\nCoolidge avenue, Wilson avenue and Taft avenue. No such speed limit\napplicable on or along designated highways within such city or village\nshall be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except\nthat school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen\nmiles per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred\ntwenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of\na school abutting on the highway and except that within the cities of\nBuffalo and Rochester speed limits may be established at not less than\nfifteen miles per hour for any portion of a highway within a city park.\n