Bill Text: NY S06579 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Boston, county of Erie, as the "Specialist Gerald B. Penn Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-10 - SIGNED CHAP.625 [S06579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06579-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6579--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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  "Specialist  Gerald  B.  Penn  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-o to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-o. Portion of the state highway  system  to  be  designated  and
     4  known  as  the  "Specialist  Gerald  B.  Penn Memorial Bridge". All that
     5  portion of the state highway system constituting the  southbound  bridge
     6  on  state  route two hundred nineteen, designated bridge number 1071050,
     7  which crosses over Shero Road, in the town of Boston,  county  of  Erie,
     8  shall be known as the "Specialist Gerald B.  Penn Memorial Bridge".
     9    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    10  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    11  as  designated  pursuant  to  section one of this act. However, to avoid
    12  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    13  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    14  ceremonial nature and the official name of  such  bridge  shall  not  be
    15  changed as a result of this act.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00594-03-3