STATE OF NEW YORK
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7002
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 "General Colin Powell Thruway"
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-r to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-r. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "General Colin Powell Thruway". All that portion of the state highway
5 system constituting interstate route eighty-seven, beginning in the city
6 of Yonkers, county of Westchester, and continuing north until it crosses
7 state route twenty in the town of Guilderland, county of Albany, shall
8 be designated and known as the "General Colin Powell Thruway".
9 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
10 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
11 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid
12 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
13 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
14 ceremonial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be
15 changed as a result of this act.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03066-01-5
