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

New York Senate Bill 6579

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6579

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        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  "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 bridge on route two
     6  hundred nineteen, designated bridge number 1071050,  which  crosses  the
     7  Eighteen Mile Creek 3.1 miles south of the junction of the Southern tier
     8  expressway and route two hundred nineteen, in the town of Boston, county
     9  of  Erie,  shall  be  known  as the "Specialist Gerald B.  Penn Memorial
    10  Bridge".
    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 bridge 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.
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