Bill Text: NY S04900 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Fishkill, Dutchess county as the "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5261A [S04900 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04900-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4900--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted 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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