STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7707--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 16, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
          8  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as the "Medford FD Commissioner  Niel  Martu-
          riello 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-p to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-p. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
     4  "Medford  FD  Commissioner  Niel  Marturiello Memorial Bridge". All that
     5  portion of the state highway system constituting the  bridge  on  Horse-
     6  block  Road, also known as County Road 16, crossing interstate route 495
     7  in the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, shall  be  designated  and
     8  known as the "Medford FD Commissioner Niel Marturiello 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.
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