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- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.133
- Referred to transportation
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Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor David Gantt
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S736
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits
Purpose
Authorizes the Department of Environmental Conservation to establish certain speed limits.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Amends subdivision 5 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law to allow the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits.
Section 2. Effective date.
Existing law
Currently the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, department of agriculture and markets, and the industrial exhibit authority have the explicit authority to set speed limits below 25 mph.
Justification
The Department of Environmental Conservation manages millions of acres of public lands primarily intended for recreational access and enjoyment, including 52 campgrounds in the Adirondack and Catskill Parks. Those lands are used for hiking, hunting, biking, camping, bird watching and other enjoyment. To create access to those properties, the Department also has roads on the property and has established many regulations to establish safe speed limits to protect pedestrians, families and others using these properties. However, the Department's authority to enforce posted speed limits below 25 mph in its campgrounds was challenged recently. Vehicle & Traffic Law §1630 authorizes the Department and other agencies to adopt regulations that "prohibit, restrict or regulate traffic of any highway, property or facility under its jurisdiction." However, because the Department is not among the agencies listed in VTL 1630(5) that have explicit authority to set speed limits below 25 mph, the County District Attorney involved in the case declined to prosecute the ticket. This bill would make explicit the Department's authority to set speed limits below 25 mph.
Legislative history
2012: Passed the Senate (S.7644/A.10673)
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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