Bill Text: NY S06562 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the county of Rensselaer as the "Rensselaer County Purple Heart Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-25 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7923A [S06562 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06562-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6562--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- 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 in the county of Rensselaer as  the  "Rensse-
          laer County Purple Heart 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-m to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-m. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
     4  "Rensselaer County Purple Heart Highway".  All that portion of the state
     5  highway  system  constituting  state  route forty-three in the county of
     6  Rensselaer starting at the county's border with Massachusetts,  continu-
     7  ing in a generally northwesterly direction and terminating at its inter-
     8  section  with  Interstate  90  in the town of North Greenbush, county of
     9  Rensselaer, shall be designated and  known  as  the  "Rensselaer  County
    10  Purple Heart Highway".
    11    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    12  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    13  as  designated  pursuant  to section one of this act.  However, to avoid
    14  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    15  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    16  ceremonial nature and the official name of such  highway  shall  not  be
    17  changed as a result of this act.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11297-03-1