Bill Text: NY S06547 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Warsaw, county of Wyoming, as the "Sgt. Daniel J. Murtha Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-10-08 - SIGNED CHAP.476 [S06547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06547-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6547

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 5, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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  "Sgt.  Daniel  J.  Murtha  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-m to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-m. Portion of the state highway  system  to  be  designated  and
     4  known  as the "Sgt.  Daniel J. Murtha Memorial Bridge". All that portion
     5  of the state highway system constituting the bridge on  route  nineteen,
     6  designated  bridge  number  1015150,  which crosses the Oatka creek one-
     7  tenth of a mile south of the junction of routes nineteen  and  twenty-a,
     8  in  the  town  of Warsaw, county of Wyoming, shall be known as the "Sgt.
     9  Daniel J. Murtha Memorial Bridge".
    10    § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
    11  lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
    12  as designated pursuant to section one of this  act.  However,  to  avoid
    13  confusion  and  to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
    14  nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall  be  one  of
    15  ceremonial  nature  and  the  official  name of such bridge shall not be
    16  changed as a result of this act.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02272-01-1
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