The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall,
for the purposes hereof, have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them in this section:
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.
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.
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 § 1684
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, state highways maintained by the State
of New York, but, notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing,
excluding:
Highways maintained by any city or incorporated village.
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.
State highways maintained by the State of New York on which
the former State Traffic Commission (now Department of Transportation)
shall have established higher or lower speed limits than the statutory
50 miles per hour speed limit as provided in § 1620 of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law.[1]
State highways maintained by the State of New York on which
the former State Traffic Commission (now Department of Transportation)
shall have designated that the Town of Oyster Bay shall not establish
any maximum speed limit as provided in § 1625 of the Vehicle
and Traffic Law.
That portion of the highway which is signposted to designate
said zone as such and/or that portion of the highway passing a school
building and extending not more than 300 feet along such highway in
either direction from the building line of a school abutting on such
highway.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: The maximum statutory speed limit is 55 miles
per hour, effective 10-1-1970.
A.
Notwithstanding any specific maximum speed limit otherwise provided
in this chapter, no person shall drive a vehicle on a public highway
at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under 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 Subsection 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 hillcrest, 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 chapter, no person
shall drive a vehicle on a public highway in excess of 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.
