Bill Text: NY A08361 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Firefighter Tim Gunther Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-11 - signed chap.256 [A08361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08361-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8361--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- 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 "Firefighter Tim Gunther 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 344-1 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-1.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Firefighter Tim Gunther Memorial Highway".  All  that  portion  of  the
     5  state  highway system constituting state route fifty-five in the city of
     6  Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess, shall be designated and known  as  the
     7  "Firefighter Tim Gunther Memorial Highway".
     8    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
     9  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    10  as  designated  pursuant  to  section one of this act. However, to avoid
    11  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    12  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    13  ceremonial nature and the official name of such  highway  shall  not  be
    14  changed as a result of this act.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11835-02-0