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Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday put the final stamp on the plan that made an end-run around state lawmakers to reactivate all 140 school-zone speed cameras in time for the first day of classes Thursday.

The cameras went dark earlier this year when the state Senate failed to extend two laws that launched the program.

The bill that de Blasio signed was part of a rare cooperative effort between Hizzoner and Gov. Cuomo — and required an assist from the City Council.

Cuomo last month signed an executive order agreeing to share state Department of Motor Vehicles data with the city to facilitate the program’s continuation.

“For weeks and weeks there was inaction in the state Senate in Albany . . . so it was time to take matters into our own hands,” de Blasio said at a packed signing ceremony in City Hall’s Blue Room.

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“I cannot understand any kind of politics that stands in the way of protecting kids. With a stroke of a pen today, we’re going to set things right.”

In addition to Cuomo’s state-of-emergency declaration, de Blasio last week signed a “message of necessity” that allowed the council bill to be voted on immediately after the committee approved it. Under normal rules, the council must wait eight days to vote on a bill after it passes committee.

The move reinstates the city’s ability to issue a $50 ticket to any vehicle caught going more than 10 mph above the speed limit in a school zone.

City officials said the 140 cameras currently in place have cut speeding by 63 percent on average since they were introduced.

Parents were relieved that the cameras will be up and running as a deterrent in time for the start of the school year.

“I can’t imagine anyone being against speed cameras in a school zone,” said Jenny Samuelson, who has two elementary-school-aged children who attend PS 234 in Tribeca. “It’s a walking community and there are so many kids. And [cameras are] a revenue generator.”

The city’s legislation allows for the program’s expansion as well — which city officials have said would add at least 150 cameras.

Among the three public speakers at the signing was Amy Cohen, an advocate with Families for Safe Streets, whose 12-year-old son, Samuel Cohen Eckstein, was fatally struck by a van nearly five years ago in Park Slope.

She thanked public officials for their creativity in bypassing the stalemate in Albany.