Bill Text: NY S07139 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in Suffolk county as the "Trooper Thomas J. Consorte Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-10-31 - SIGNED CHAP.548 [S07139 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07139-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7139

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as the "Trooper Thomas J.  Consorte  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  as  the
     4  "Trooper  Thomas  J. Consorte Memorial Bridge".  All that portion of the
     5  state highway system constituting the state route  twenty-five  overpass
     6  at  the  Long  Island  expressway  in  the  town of Riverhead, county of
     7  Suffolk, shall be  designated  and  known  as  the  "Trooper  Thomas  J.
     8  Consorte 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.
                                                                   LBD11271-03-1