STATE OF NEW YORK
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7923--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 28, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ASHBY, McDONALD -- 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 in the county of Rensselaer as the "Rensse-
laer County Purple Heart 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-m to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-m. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Rensselaer County Purple Heart Highway". All that portion of the state
5 highway system constituting state route forty-three in the county of
6 Rensselaer starting at the county's border with Massachusetts, continu-
7 ing in a generally northwesterly direction and terminating at its inter-
8 section with Interstate 90 in the town of North Greenbush, county of
9 Rensselaer, shall be designated and known as the "Rensselaer County
10 Purple Heart Highway".
11 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
12 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
13 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid
14 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
15 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
16 ceremonial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be
17 changed as a result of this act.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11297-02-1
