2020 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
Article 37 - Regulation of Traffic by Department of Transportation and Other State Authorities
1624 - Limitation on Scope of Local Speed Limits; Reports of Local Speeding Convictions to Department of Transportation.

§ 1624. Limitation  on  scope  of local speed limits; reports of local
speeding convictions to department of transportation. (a) On  any  state
highway  maintained  by  the  state within any city, village or suburban
town  governed  pursuant  to  article  three-A  of  the  town  law,  the
department  of  transportation  may  designate any such state highway or
section of such highway on which any such city, village or suburban town
shall not by local law, ordinance, order, rule or  regulation  establish
any  maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed on or along such
state highway.  Such designation shall be made by an order in writing of
the department of transportation and served by  mail  on  the  mayor  or
supervisor  or  a member of the governing board of such city, village or
suburban town ten days  before  the  same  shall  take  effect.  At  the
expiration  of  ten  days  after  service  of  such order upon any city,
village or suburban town the  speed  of  any  vehicle  upon  such  state
highway  or  section  of  such  highway shall not be subject to any such
maximum speed limit established by such city, village or suburban town.
  (b) The department of transportation may in its discretion at any time
make a written order requiring any city, village  or  suburban  town  to
report to the department of transportation the punishment inflicted upon
conviction  of  exceeding  the  lawful maximum speed limit in such city,
village or suburban town. Such order shall be in writing  and  shall  be
served  in  like  manner as the order provided for in subdivision (a) of
this section. Any city, village or suburban town upon which  such  order
is  served  shall  thereafter, at the close of each month and before the
fifth day of the following month, make a report  to  the  department  of
transportation  showing  the  name and residence of each person fined or
otherwise punished  during  the  month,  and  the  fines  or  punishment
imposed.  Such report shall be duly verified by the officer or officers,
or magistrate or magistrates  imposing  the  fines  or  punishment.  The
department  of  transportation  may  at  any time suspend or rescind the
order requiring such reports.   If any city, village  or  suburban  town
fail  to make any such report as required by the order of the department
of transportation within the time prescribed by law, the right or  power
of  such  city,  village  or suburban town to impose any punishment upon
conviction of exceeding the lawful maximum speed limit within such city,
village or suburban town shall be suspended until the report is made  as
required.