Bill Text: NY A09797 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system including the bridge on the South Service Road, between Federal Circle and Perimeter Road Overpass, crossing over the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica as the "Port Authority Police Officer William J. Leahy Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-28 - print number 9797a [A09797 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09797-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9797--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Transportation -- 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 "Port Authority Police Officer William
          J. Leahy Memorial Bridge"

          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  "Port Authority Police Officer William J. Leahy  Memorial  Bridge".  All
     5  that  portion of the state highway system constituting the bridge on the
     6  South Service Road, between Federal Circle and the Perimeter Road  Over-
     7  pass,  crossing  over  the  Van  Wyck  Expressway in the neighborhood of
     8  Jamaica, county of Queens, shall be designated and known  as  the  "Port
     9  Authority Police Officer William J. Leahy Memorial Bridge".
    10    §  2.  The port authority of New York and New Jersey shall provide for
    11  the installation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  high-
    12  way  system  as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However,
    13  to avoid confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the
    14  designation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be  one
    15  of  ceremonial  nature and the official name of such bridge shall not be
    16  changed as a result of this act.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14734-03-4