Section 1643. Speed limits on highways in cities and villages  


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      legislative body of any city or village with respect to highways  (which
      term  for  the purposes of this section shall include private roads open
      to public motor vehicle traffic) in such city  or  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,  or  on  which  the   department   of
      transportation shall have designated that such city or village shall not
      establish any maximum speed limit as provided in section sixteen hundred
      twenty-four,  subject  to  the  limitations  imposed  by section sixteen
      hundred  eighty-four  may  by  local  law,  ordinance,  order,  rule  or
      regulation  establish maximum speed limits at which vehicles may proceed
      within such city or village, within designated areas  of  such  city  or
      village  or  on or along designated highways within such city or village
      higher or lower than the fifty-five miles  per  hour  maximum  statutory
      limit. No such speed limit applicable throughout such city or village or
      within  designated areas of such city or village shall be established at
      less than thirty miles per hour. No such speed limit  applicable  on  or
      along   designated  highways  within  such  city  or  village  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 that within the cities of Buffalo and
      Rochester speed limits may be established at not less than fifteen miles
      per hour for any portion of a highway within a city park.