N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 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 § 1620 (Speed limits on state highways, and on Indian reservations)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 § 1624 (Limitation on scope of local speed limits)section sixteen hundred twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by § 1684 (State highways maintained by the state)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.

Source: Section 1643 — Speed limits on highways in cities and villages, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VAT/1643 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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Traffic regulations in all cities and villages 1640‑A
Traffic regulations at parking areas and driveways of hospitals, shopping centers, office buildings and office building complexes, places... 1640‑B
Residential parking system in the Corn Hill section of the city of Rochester 1640‑C
Residential parking system in the city of Rye 1640‑D
Residential parking system in the village of Pelham in the county of Westchester 1640‑E
Residential parking system in the Tibbetts Brook Park and Yonkers Raceway/Empire City areas of the city of Yonkers 1640‑E*2
Residential parking system in the city of Ithaca in the county of Tompkins 1640‑F
Residential parking permit system in the city of Beacon 1640‑F*2
Residential parking system in the city of Auburn in the county of Cayuga 1640‑F*3
Residential parking system in the village of Tarrytown 1640‑G
Residential parking system in the village of Tuckahoe in the county of Westchester 1640‑H
Residential parking system in the city of Peekskill 1640‑H*2
Residential parking system in the village of Cold Spring in the county of Putnam 1640‑I
Residential parking system in the village of Mt 1640‑J
Residential parking system in the Garrett Park area of the city of Yonkers 1640‑J*2
Residential parking system in the village of Irvington 1640‑K
Residential parking permit system in the city of Rensselaer 1640‑L
Residential parking system in the city of Binghamton 1640‑M
Residential parking permit system in the city of Albany 1640‑O
Residential parking system in the village of Dobbs Ferry in the county of Westchester 1640‑O*2
Residential parking system in the village of Mamaroneck in the county of Westchester 1640‑P
Pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo 1640‑Q
Residential parking system in the village of Croton-on-Hudson 1640‑R
Residential parking system in the village of Floral Park in the county of Nassau 1640‑R*2
Residential parking system in the city of New Rochelle 1640‑R*3
Residential parking system in the city of Rye 1640‑S
Residential parking system in the village of Port Chester 1641
Additional traffic regulations on all highways except state highways maintained by the state in cities and villages 1642
Additional traffic regulations in cities having a population in excess of one million 1642‑A
Bus permit system in cities having a population of one million or more 1643
Speed limits on highways in cities and villages 1644
Special speed limits on bridges and other elevated structures in cities and villages 1645
Exempting fuel oil trucks from use of truck routes in cities having a population in excess of one million 1646
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Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 1643’s source at nysenate​.gov

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