N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1643: Speed limits on highways in cities and villages

§ 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages. The

legislative body of any city or village with respect to highways (which

term for the purposes of this section shall include private roads open

to public motor vehicle traffic) in such city or village, other than

state highways maintained by the state on which the department of

transportation shall have established higher or lower speed limits than

the statutory fifty-five miles per hour speed limit as provided in

section sixteen hundred twenty of this title, or on which the department

of transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall

not establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen

hundred twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by

section sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local law,

ordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at

which vehicles may proceed within such city or village, within

designated areas of such city or village or on or along designated

highways within such city or village higher or lower than the fifty-five

miles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable

throughout such city or village or within designated areas of such city

or village shall be established at less than thirty miles per hour;

except that in the city of Long Beach, in the county of Nassau, speed

limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles per hour on any

portion of the following highways in such city: Cleveland avenue,

Harding avenue, Mitchell avenue, Belmont avenue, Atlantic avenue,

Coolidge avenue, Wilson avenue and Taft avenue. No such speed limit

applicable on or along designated highways within such city or village

shall be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour, except

that school speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen

miles per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand three hundred

twenty feet, on a highway passing a school building, entrance or exit of

a school abutting on the highway and except that within the cities of

Buffalo and Rochester speed limits may be established at not less than

fifteen miles per hour for any portion of a highway within a city park.