STATE OF NEW YORK
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4914--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- 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 "Peter Wheeler 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-o to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-o. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Peter Wheeler Memorial Bridge". All that portion of the state highway
5 system constituting the bridge on state route thirty-four-b crossing
6 Salmon Creek in the town of Lansing, county of Tompkins, shall be desig-
7 nated and known as the "Peter Wheeler Memorial Bridge".
8 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
9 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
10 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid
11 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
12 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
13 ceremonial nature and the official name of such bridge shall not be
14 changed as a result of this act.
15 § 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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