How to resolve AdBlock issue? MALTA – This week Senator Jim Tedisco (R-Glenville) and Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake) announced that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a measure they sponsored, enabling the Town of Malta to lower speed limits on its local roads when a higher speed is deemed potentially hazardous to public safety.
The home-rule legislation, which was requested by town officials, requires the state Department of Transportation to defer to the Malta Town Board requests for speed limit signage and signal changes.
In particular, the law authorizes the town, in certain instances, to decrease the speed limit from 55 miles per hour to between 30 and 25 miles per hour on town roads and 15 miles per hour near school zones.
