Bill Text: NY S07004 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the Saw Mill river parkway as the "Westchester County Purple Heart Highway"; such designation applies to the Saw Mill river parkway from exit 39 in the town of Bedford and continues southwesterly to exit 23 in the town of Greenburgh.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-29 - referred to transportation [S07004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07004-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7004
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 3, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- 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 "Westchester County Purple Heart High-
          way"
          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-h to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-h.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Westchester County Purple Heart Highway". All that portion of the state
     5  highway system constituting the Saw Mill river parkway in the county  of
     6  Westchester,  beginning  at exit thirty-nine of such parkway in the town
     7  of Bedford, continuing in a generally southwesterly direction on the Saw
     8  Mill river parkway, and terminating at exit twenty-three of such parkway
     9  in the town of Greenburgh, shall be designated and known as  the  "West-
    10  chester County 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 of one
    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.
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