Bill Text: NY S02242 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the Long Island Expressway as the "9-11 Fallen Firefighter Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02242 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02242-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2242

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as  the  "9-11  Fallen  Firefighter  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-o to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-o. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as "9-11
     4  Fallen Firefighter Memorial Highway." All  that  portion  of  the  state
     5  highway  system  constituting the Long Island Expressway between exit 59
     6  and exit 61, shall be designated and known as  the  "9-11  Fallen  Fire-
     7  fighter 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.
                                                                   LBD01056-01-3