2020 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
Article 41 - Regulation of Traffic by Towns
1662-A - Speed Limits in Certain Towns.

§  1662-a.  Speed  limits  in  certain  towns.  The  town board of any
  suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town  law  and
  the  town  board  of  any other town having a population exceeding fifty
  thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of  this
  section  shall  include  private  roads  open  to  public  motor vehicle
  traffic) in such towns outside any 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 towns 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 towns, within designated areas of  such
  towns  or  on  or along designated highways within such towns lower than
  the fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory  limit.  No  such  speed
  limit  applicable  throughout  such  towns or within designated areas of
  such towns shall be established at less  than  thirty  miles  per  hour,
  except  that in the town of Hempstead speed limits may be established at
  not less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of a highway in  the
  community  known  as  Point  Lookout  and  on  all or any portion of the
  following  highways  in  the  community  known  as  Lido  Beach:   Ocean
  Boulevard,  Allevard  Street,  Bath  Street,  Buxton  Street, Cheltenham
  Street, Pinehurst Street, Harrogate  Street,  Matlock  Street,  Nantwick
  Street,  Biarritz  Street, Royat Street, Luchon Street, Woodhail Street,
  Leamington Street, Saratoga  Street,  Kensington  Street,  and  Prescott
  Street;  provided, however, that no such speed limit in such town may be
  established unless a majority of the residents of  each  such  community
  file  a  petition with the town board of such town requesting such speed
  limit. No such speed limit applicable on or  along  designated  highways
  within  such  towns  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 further
  that in the town of Hempstead speed limits may  be  established  at  not
  less  than  fifteen  miles  per  hour on any portion of a highway in the
  communities known as Point Lookout and Lido  Beach;  provided,  however,
  that  no  such  speed  limit  in  such  town may be established unless a
  majority of the residents of each such community file  a  petition  with
  the town board of such town requesting such speed limit.