STATE OF NEW YORK
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10429
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Walczyk) --
read once and referred 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 "Firefighter Peyton L. S. Morse Memo-
rial 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-n to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-n. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Firefighter Peyton L. S. Morse Memorial Bridge". All that portion of
5 the state highway system constituting the bridge on state route one
6 hundred eighty, designated bridge number 1039500, which crosses the
7 Chaumount river in the town of Orleans, county of Jefferson, from the
8 Town of Orleans library to the La Fargeville Central School campus,
9 shall be designated and known as the "Firefighter Peyton L. S. Morse
10 Memorial Bridge".
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 bridge 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.
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