N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1662-a: Speed limits in certain towns

§ 1662-a. Speed limits in certain towns. The town board of any

suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town law and

the town board of any other town having a population exceeding fifty

thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of this

section shall include private roads open to public motor vehicle

traffic) in such towns outside any 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 towns 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 towns, within designated areas of such

towns or on or along designated highways within such towns lower than

the fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed

limit applicable throughout such towns or within designated areas of

such towns shall be established at less than thirty miles per hour,

except that in the town of Hempstead speed limits may be established at

not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of a highway in the

community known as Point Lookout and on all or any portion of the

following highways in the community known as Lido Beach: Ocean

Boulevard, Allevard Street, Bath Street, Buxton Street, Cheltenham

Street, Pinehurst Street, Harrogate Street, Matlock Street, Nantwick

Street, Biarritz Street, Royat Street, Luchon Street, Woodhail Street,

Leamington Street, Saratoga Street, Kensington Street, and Prescott

Street; provided, however, that no such speed limit in such town may be

established unless a majority of the residents of each such community

file a petition with the town board of such town requesting such speed

limit. No such speed limit applicable on or along designated highways

within such towns 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 further

that in the town of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not

less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of a highway in the

communities known as Point Lookout and Lido Beach; provided, however,

that no such speed limit in such town may be established unless a

majority of the residents of each such community file a petition with

the town board of such town requesting such speed limit.