Bill Text: NY A10615 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to designating the Mill Basin Bridge as the "Firefighter Steven Pollard Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-09 - referred to transportation [A10615 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10615-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10615

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 9, 2020
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Williams) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the  state  highway  system  as  "Firefighter  Steven Pollard 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-l to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-l.  Portion  of  the  state  highway system to be designated as
     4  "Firefighter Steven Pollard Memorial Bridge".   The bridge on  the  belt
     5  parkway  crossing  over  the  mill  basin,  in  the  county of Brooklyn,
     6  currently known as the mill basin bridge, shall be designated and  known
     7  as "Firefighter Steven Pollard Memorial Bridge".
     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  bridge  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.
                                                                   LBD15691-01-0