ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1257	By:	Moore, Johnson, Jackson and Sherrer of the House

				and

		Barrington of the Senate

An Act relating to roads, bridges and ferries; creating the Historic Chisholm Trail Bike Route; providing for costs associated with signage; requiring markers contingent on funding and establishment of a shoulder lane; providing for bike lane contingent on funding; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  Historic Chisholm Trail Bike Route

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1698.159 of Title 69, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

State Highway 81 from the Kansas border to the Texas border shall be designated as the “Historic Chisholm Trail Bike Route”.  The cost associated with signage required by this section shall be provided from private sources and shall include the cost of the initial erection of signs as well as the cost of potential replacement or reconstruction of signs.  Upon receiving adequate funding from private sources and after a shoulder lane has been provided, the Department of Transportation shall cause suitable permanent markers to be placed upon the highway bearing that name.  Contingent upon the availability of funds, the Department shall provide a shoulder lane designated for use by bicycle traffic on the Historic Chisholm Trail Bike Route.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

Passed the House of Representatives the 7th day of March, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 8th day of April, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

	_________________________________
	Governor of the State of Oklahoma

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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