A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reducing the citywide speed limit to twenty-five miles per hour.

By Council Members Greenfield, Rodriguez, Chin, Johnson, Koo, Levine, Reynoso, Richards, Rosenthal, Van Bramer, Menchaca, Levin, Constantinides, Cohen, Lander and the Public Advocate (Ms. James)

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivisions a and c of section 19-177 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 6 for the year 1996, are amended to read as follows:

a. [The] Subject to the provisions of paragraph twenty-six of subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, the official speed limit for a vehicle in the city of new York shall be [thirty] twenty-five miles per hour except where an official sign indicates that a different speed limit is in effect.

c. The commissioner shall post a sign at each exit within the city of New York of each bridge and tunnel having only one terminus in the city of New York that states the official speed limit within the city as provided in subdivision a of this section.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect on November 7, 2014.

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