STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5261--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BEEPHAN -- 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 "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial
          Highway"

          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 345-b to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  345-b.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial Highway". All that portion of  state
     5  route  nine in the town of Fishkill, county of Dutchess, shall be desig-
     6  nated and known as the "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial Highway".
     7    § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
     8  lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
     9  as designated pursuant to section one of this  act.  However,  to  avoid
    10  confusion  and  to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
    11  nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall  be  one  of
    12  ceremonial  nature  and  the  official name of such highway shall not be
    13  changed as a result of this act.
    14    § 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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