New York Laws
Article 39 - Regulation of Traffic by Cities and Villages
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 twenty-five 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.
No speed limits shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this
section except in accordance with the engineering considerations and
factors for speed limits set forth in the manual and specifications for
a uniform system of traffic control devices maintained by the
commissioner of transportation pursuant to section sixteen hundred
eighty of this title, as such manual and specifications may be amended
from time to time, certified by a licensed professional engineer who
specializes in traffic operations.