Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen Memorial Bridge" located in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7588--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 28, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. PALUMBO, MARTINEZ, MURRAY, RHOADS, WEIK -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation
in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
the state highway system as the "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen
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-p to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-p. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen Memorial Bridge". All that portion of
5 the state highway system constituting the Halsey Manor Road overpass at
6 the Long Island Expressway in the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk,
7 shall be designated and known as the "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen
8 Memorial Bridge".
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 bridge 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.
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