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:
HIGHWAY
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.
MOTOR VEHICLE
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.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY
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:
A. 
Highways maintained by any city or incorporated village.
B. 
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.
C. 
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]
D. 
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.
SCHOOL SPEED ZONE
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.
VEHICLE
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.