Filed Date: 1/15/1981
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
Raymond J. Elliot, III, Esq. Town Attorney, North Greenbush
You inquire whether the Town of North Greenbush or the County of Rensselaer, in which the town is located, is responsible for buying, posting and maintaining new speed limit signs on county highways and ask which municipality should remove the existing signs. We assume from your letter that the town has established new speed limits on county highways under Vehicle and Traffic Law, §
Section 1662-a authorizes certain towns to establish maximum speed limits under fifty-five miles per hour on highways in the town, outside any village, other than State highways maintained by the State. Each municipality is responsible for placement and maintenance of traffic-control devices it authorizes to carry out the provisions of the Vehicle and Traffic Law (Vehicle and Traffic Law, §
The town should determine under what provision of law existing speed limit signs were posted. If posted under section 1662-a, the existing signs are the property of the town (Vehicle and Traffic Law, §
We note that under Vehicle and Traffic Law, §