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TOWN OF OYSTER BAY
LOCAL LAW NO. 4 OF THE
YEAR 1967
A LOCAL LAW
RELATING TO VEHICLESPEEL
LIMITS IN THE TOWN 01
OYSTER BAY
Be it enacted by the Town
Board of the Town of Oyster Bay
as follows:
LOC^ L LAW NO. 4- 1967
A Bill for the Proposed Enactment
of A Local Law Relating
to Vehicle Speed Limits
and for The Repeal of Town
of Oyster Bay Local Law No. 1
of the Year 1965.
VEHICLE SPEED LIMITS IN THE
TOWN :) F OYSTER BAY
ARTICLE ONE - GENERAL
Section 1.0. - Definitions:
The following words and
phrases when used in this local
law shall, for the purposes
hereof, have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them in
this section:
Vehicle - Every device in,
upon, or by which any
person or property is or
may be transported or drawn
upon a highway, except devices
moved by human power
or used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
Motor Vehicle - Every vehicle,
except electrically driven
invalid chairs being operated
or driven upon a public highway
by any power other than
muscular power which includes
electric power obtained
from overhead trolley
wires, except vehicles which
run only upon rails or tracks.
Highway - The entire width
between the boundary lines of
every way publicly maintained
when any part thereof
is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular
travel.
Public Highway - Any highway,
road, street, avenue, alley public
place, public driveway or
any other public way in the
Town of Oyster Bay, including
private roads open to public
motor vehicle traffic and
highways maintained by Nassau
County and including, subject
to the provisions of section
sixteen hundred eighty-four
of the vehicle and traffic
law, state highways maintained
by the State of New
York, but, notwithstanding the
generality of the foregoing, excluding:
( a) highways maintained by any
city or incorporated village.
( b) access roads and parking
fields on the grounds of any
building or institution maintained
by the United States,
the State of New York or Nassau
County or by any school
district or by any agency, authority,
commission or institution
under the jurisdiction
of any of them.
( c) state highways maintained
by the State of New York on
which the state traffic commission
shall have established
higher or lower speed limits
than the statutory fifty ( 50)
miles per hour speed limit as
provided in section sixteen
hundred twenty of the vehicle
and traffic law.
( d) state highways maintained
by the State of New York on
which the state traffic commission
shall have designated that
the Town of Oyster Bay shall
not establish any maximum
speed limit as provided in
section sixteen hundred twenty-
five of the vehicle and traffic
law.
School Speed Zone - that portion
of the highway which is sign
posted to designate said zone
as such, and/ or that portion of
the highway passing a school
building and extending not more
than three hundred feet along
such highway in either direction
from the building line of a
school abutting on such highway.
Section 1.1,- General Lim. Us;
( a) notwithstanding any specific
maximum speed limit otherwise
provided in this local
law, no person shall drive a
vehicle on a public highway
at a speed greater than is
reasonable and prudent under
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the conditions and having regard
to the actual and potential
hazards then existing.
( b) The driver of any vehicle
shall, consistent with the requirements
of subdivision ( a)
of this section, drive at an appropriate
reduced speed when
approaching and crossing an
intersection or railway grade
crossing, when approaching
and going around a curve,
when approaching a hill crest,
when traveling upon any narrow
or winding roadway, and when
any special hazard exists with
respect to pedestrians, or other
traffic by reason of weather
or highway conditions.
( c) Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this local
law, no person shall drive a
vehicle on a public highway
in excess of thirty ( 30) miles
per hour.
( d) No person shall drive a
motor vehicle at such a slow
speed as to impede the normal
and reasonable movement of
traffic except when reduced
speed is necessary for safe
operation or in compliance with
law.
ARTICLE TWO -
SPECIAL LIMITS
Section 2.0 - Application of Article:
( a) The limitations provided
by this article shall apply in
the circumstances and at the
places herein specified notwithstanding
the provisions of
subdivision ( c) of Section 1.1
of Article One of this local
law.
( b) Whenever, by this article,
two or more specific maximum
speed limits shall be
applicable in any particular
circumstance or place, the
lowest of said limits shall
apply.
Section J2,1..- School Buildings;
No person shall drive any
motor vehicle within a school
speed zone during the school
noon hour, school recess, or
while children are going to or
leaving school during opening
or closing hours, when such
limit and zone are properly
sign posted as directed by
the Town Board, in excess of
twenty- five ( 25) miles per
hour. If, however, a school
speed zone is posted so as to
restrict the speed limit in said
zone to a maximum of fifteen
( 15) miles per hour, then no
person shall drive any motor
vehicle within said school
speed zone during the school
noon hour, school recess, or
while children are going to or
leaving school during opening
or closing hours, when such
limit and zone are properly
sign posted, as directed by
the Town Board, in excess of
fifteen ( 15) miles per hour.
Section 2>, 2, - Bridges and Ele^
yated Structures:
The Town Board may determine
the maximum speed which
may be maintained without
structural damage to bridges
and elevated structures that
are a part of any highway
and, if, such maximum speed
is lower than the maximum
speed limit otherwise applicable,
may by order, rule
or regulation establish such
lower maximum speed limit
at which vehicles may proceed
on any such bridge or structure.
Section. 2.3, - Fifty ( 5Q1 miles.
par hour limit at specific loca-
Bons:
No person shall drive any
motor vehicle in excess of
fifty ( 50) miles per hour on
the following highways or parts
of the said highways.
. Section .2.4. - _ Forty- five ( 45)
mile per hour limit at specific
locations:
No person shall drive any
motor vehicle in excess of
forty- five ( 45) miles per hour
on the following highways or
parts of highways.
Section 2.5. - Forty ( 40) mile
per hour limit at specific locations:
No person shall drive any
motor vehicle in excess of
forty ( 40) miles per hour on
the following highways or parts
of highways:
Stewart Avenue - between South
Oyster Bay Road, Bethpage,
Hicksville Road, Plainedge.
Old Country Road - between Town •
of Oyster Bay westerly boundary
line and Suffolk County
boundary line.
South Oyster Bay Road - between
Hicksville Road, Bethpage, and
Jericho Turnpike, Syosset.
Underhill Boulevard - between
Jackson Avenue, Syosset, and
Jericho Turnpike, Syosset.
Woodbury Road - between South
Oyster Bay Road, Plainview,
and Gloria Drive, Woodbury.
Boundary Avenue - between
Hicksville Road, Plainedge, and
North Broadway, North Mas-sapequa.
Broadway and North Broadway -
between Boundary Avenue,
North Massapequa and Hicksville
Road, Massapequa.
Carmans Road - between Sunrise
Highway, Massapequa, and
Main Street, South Farming-dale.
Woodbury Road - between Bay
Avenue, Hicksville, and Jericho
Turnpike, Woodbury.
Merritt Road - between the southerly
boundary of the Incorporated
Village of Farmingdale,
and North Broadway, North
Massapequa.
Jerusalem Avenue - between
Broadway, Massapequa, and
Hicksville Road, Massapequa.
West John Street - between Strong
Street, Hicksville, and Town of
Oyster Bay westerly boundary
line.
Cantiague Road - between West
John Street, Hicksville, and
Brush Hollow Road, Jericho.
Manetto Hill Road - between
Woodbury Road, Woodbury, and
Old Country Road, Plainview.
Syosset- Woodbury Road - between
Cold Spring Road, Syosset,
and Woodbury Road, Woodbury.
Cold Spring Road - between
Arizona Avenue, Syosset, and
the southerly boundary of the
Incorporated Village of Laurel
Hollow.
South Woods Road - between Cold
Spring Road, Syosset, and J e richo
Turnpike, Woodbury.
Piquet's Lane - between Jericho
Turnpike, Woodbury, and
Woodbury Road, Woodbury.
Robbins Lane - between Jericho
Turnpike, Syosset, and Mar-lene
Drive, Syosset.
Jerusalem - between Old Country
Road, Hicksville, and the
southerly boundary of the Town
of Oyster Bay.
Plainview Road - between Old
Bethpage Road, Plainview, and
Haypath Road, Bethpage.
Glen Cove Avenue - between
the southerly boundary of the
City of Glen Cove and the
northerly boundary of the Incorporated
Village of Roslyn
Harbor.
Bethpage Road - between Broadway,
Hicksville, and Woodbury
Road, Hicksville.
Section 2.6. - Thirty- five ( 35)
mile per hour limit at specific
locations:
No person shall drive any
motor vehicle in excess of
thirty- five ( 35) miles per hour
on the following highways or
parts of highways:
Merrick Road - between the
boundary lines of the Town
of Hempstead A1 own of Oyster
Bay, easterly to the western
boundary of the Incorporated
Village of Massapequa Park
and from the easterly boundary
of the Incorporated Village of
Massapequa Park easterly to
the boundary line of Town of
Oyster Bay/ Suffolk County,
ckson Avenue - between
Walters Avenue, Syosset, and
Jericho Turnpike, Syosset.
Round Swamp Road - between
Old Country Road, Old Bethpage
and the northerly
boundary line of the Incorporated
Village of Farmingdale.
Old Bethpage Road - between
Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage,
and Plainview Road,
Plainview.
Broadway/ Plainview Road - between
Haypath Road, Bethpage,
and Barbara Street, Bethpage.
ARTICLE THREE - SIGNS
Section 3.6. - Signs:
No maximum speed limit
specified by this local law,
other than the general thirty
( 30) miles per hour limit
specified in subdivision ( c) of
Emil Cohen, noted humorist
and raconteur, will be the featured
attraction at the Israel
Bond luncheon honoring Mrs.
Bernard Schuss on Monday, July
24 at noon, at the home of Mrs.
Irving Joludow, 133 Stillwater
Avenue, Massapequa.
Mr. Cohen, whose comments
on aspects of both American and
Yiddish culture have won him
responsive audiences throughout
the country, has appeared in
major night clubs and theaters
and has performed both on radio
and television.
The luncheon will cite Mrs.
Schuss for her leadership in the
campaign to raise Israel Bond
investment capital to help finance
the recovery of Israel's economy.
Mrs. Joludow, at whose home
the luncheon will take place, is
chairman of the Massapequa-
Amityville- Lindenhurst Women's
Committee for State of Israel
Bonds, sponsors of the luncheon.
Free Summer Film Festival
A showing of various films, to
be shown free of charge to the
general public and sponsored by
the Massapequa Public Library
at the BarHarbourBranch, willbe
shown on Tuesday, July 25, at
8: 00 p. m.
Entitled ' Summer Film Festival,'
offerings include ' Goya',
• Yankee Painter', ' Works ofCal-der'
and ' Jackson Pollock'.
Walter Smith and Steven Hyman show Steven's sister, Jeannette,
and her friend, Barbara Lewandowski, the three baseball books r e cently
donated to the Plainedge Public Library by the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Plainedge Baseball Leagues.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
Section 1.1. of Article One
hereof, shall be effective until
signs or markings giving notice
thereof are posted on the highways
or parts thereof which
are subject to such limit. One
such sign or marking shall be
posted at each end of the highway
or part thereof subject
to such limit, and, additional
signs or markings shall be
posted between those at each
end if the town board shall,
by resolution, find that such
additional signs or markings
are reasonably required to give
adequate notice to the drivers
of motor vehicles of such limit.
ARTICLE FOUR - PENALTIES
Section 4.0. - Penalties:
Every person convicted of a
violation of any provision of
this local law shall be guilty
of a traffic infraction and ( a)
for a first conviction thereof
be punished by a fine of not
more than fifty ($ 50.00) dollars
or by imprisonment for not
more than fifteen ( 15) days
or by both such fine and imprisonment;
( b) for a second
such conviction within eighteen
( 18) months thereafter by a
fine of not more than one
hundred ($ 100.00) dollars or
by imprisonment for not more
than thirty ( 30) days or by
both such fine and imprisonment;
and ( c) for a third or
subsequent conviction within
eighteen ( 18) months after the
first conviction by a fine of
not more than two hundred
fifty ($ 250.00) dollars or by
imprisonment for not more
than ninety ( 90) days or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
ARTICLE FIVE - PRIOR LAW
. SUPERSEDED.
Section 5,0, - PriQX. i^ P£ al Uw.
Superseded:
This local law supersedes
Town of Oyster Bay Local Law
No. 1 of the Year 1965, entitled
" A Local Law RelatingtoVehicle
Speed Limits in the Town of
Oyster Bay", adopted December
28, 1965, which prior local law
is hereby repealed.
ARTICLE SIX - SAVINGCLAUSE
. Section. 6A...- Saying CLauss;
Nothing contained in any provisions
of Article Five applies
to any offense committed or other
acts done at any time before the
day when such Article takes effect.
Such an offense must be
punished according to and such
act must be governed by the
provisions of law existing when
it is done or committed in the
same manner as if this local
law had not been passed. An
offense specified in such Article,
committed after the beginning
of the day when such Article
takes effect, must be punished
according to the provisions of
such Article and not otherwise.
ARTICLE SEVEN-SEPARABILJTY
CLAUSE
Section 7.0 - Invalidity of any section
or'provision - separability.
It is the intention of the Town
Board that this Local Law, and
every provision thereof, shall be
considered separable, and the invalidity
of any section, clause,
provision, or part or portion of
any section, clause or provision
of this Local Law shall not affect
the validity of any other portion
of this Local Law.
ARTICLE EIGHT-EFFECTIVE
DATE
Section 8.0 - Effective Date;
This Local Law shall take effect
immediately.
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN
BOARD OF THE TOWN OF
OYSTER BAY.
Michael N. Petito.
Supervisor
William B. O'Keefe
Town Clerk
Dated: Oyster Bay, New York
July 11, 1967
STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NASSAU ) ss.:
TOWN OF OYSTER BAY)
I, WILLIAM B O'KEEFE, Town
Clerk of the Town of Oyster Bay,
and custodian of the Records of
said Town, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that I have compared the
annexed with the original Public
Notice of Adoption of Local Law
# 4- 1967, Relating to Vehicle
Speed Limits in the Town of
Oyster Bay approved by the Town
Board of the. Town of Oyster Bay
on July 11, 1967/ iled in the Town
Clerk's Office and that the same
is a true transcript thereof, and
of the whole of such original.
In Testimony Whereof, I have
hereunto signed my name and
affixed the seal of said Town
this 14th day of July, 1967.
WILLIAM B. O'KEEFE
Town Clerk
S E A L
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