Bill Text: NY A07956 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7956

Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Gainesville as the "T Sgt Walter Shearing Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - reported referred to ways and means [A07956 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07956-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7956--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transporta-
          tion  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the  state highway system as the "T Sgt Walter Shearing Memorial High-
          way"

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 344-p to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-p.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "T Sgt Walter Shearing Memorial Highway". All that portion of the  state
     5  highway  system  constituting state route nineteen from Eddy Road in the
     6  town of Gainesville, county of Wyoming,  to  East  Mill  Street  in  the
     7  village of Gainesville, county of Wyoming, shall be designated and known
     8  as the "T Sgt Walter Shearing Memorial Highway".
     9    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    10  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    11  as  designated  pursuant  to  section one of this act. However, to avoid
    12  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    13  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    14  ceremonial nature and the official name of such  highway  shall  not  be
    15  changed as a result of this act.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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