STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5564--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- 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 "Senior Investigator Thomas M. O'Neill
          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-o to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-o.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Senior Investigator Thomas M.  O'Neill  Memorial  Bridge".    All  that
     5  portion  of  the state highway system constituting the Crooked Hill Road
     6  Overpass crossing over the Sagtikos Parkway in the town of Islip, county
     7  of Suffolk, shall be designated and known as  the  "Senior  Investigator
     8  Thomas M. O'Neill Memorial Bridge".
     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  bridge  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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