Bill Text: NY S08861 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-10-02 - SIGNED CHAP.321 [S08861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08861-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          8861
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 29, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- 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 "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway"
          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  "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway". All that  portion  of  the  state
     5  highway  system  commencing  at  the  intersection  of state route three
     6  hundred and state route fifty-two in the town  of  Newburgh,  county  of
     7  Orange, and continuing in a generally southerly direction on state route
     8  three  hundred, and terminating at the intersection of state route three
     9  hundred and state route seventeen-K in the town of Newburgh,  county  of
    10  Orange,  shall  be  designated  and  be known as the "Gold Star Families
    11  Memorial Highway".
    12    § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
    13  lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
    14  as designated pursuant to section one of this act.   However,  to  avoid
    15  confusion  and  to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
    16  nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall  be  one  of
    17  ceremonial  nature  and  the  official name of such highway shall not be
    18  changed as a result of this act.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16088-01-8