Designates portions of the state highway system as "The Disabled American Veterans - New York Medal of Honor Highway" and the "New York Medal of Honor Highway"; renames the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz Memorial Highway" as the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz - New York Medal of Honor Highway".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7620--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
December 22, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- 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 committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating portions of
the state highway system as "The Disabled American Veterans - New York
Medal of Honor Highway", the "New York Medal of Honor Highway" and the
"Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz - New York Medal of Honor Highway"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 343-a of the highway law, as added by chapter 293
2 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 343-a. Portion of state highway system to be designated as ["The
4 Disabled American Veterans Memorial Highway."] "The Disabled American
5 Veterans - New York Medal of Honor Highway". All that portion of United
6 States route twenty beginning at the community of Irving, where route
7 five and route twenty merge with Old Lake Shore road, and continuing
8 northeasterly until approximately one mile south of the town of Depew,
9 Erie county, then continuing easterly across New York state to its
10 terminus at the New York-Massachusetts border approximately two miles
11 east of the town of New Lebanon, Columbia county shall be designated and
12 known as ["The Disabled American Veterans Memorial Highway."] "The Disa-
13 bled American Veterans - New York Medal of Honor Highway".
14 § 2. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 344-n to read
15 as follows:
16 § 344-n. Portion of state highway system to be designated as "New
17 York Medal of Honor Highway". All that portion of United States route
18 twenty beginning at its beginning at the New York-Pennsylvania border
19 and continuing easterly across New York state until the western border
20 of the village of Fredonia, county of Chautauqua, then continuing east-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 erly from the eastern border of the village of Fredonia, county of Chau-
2 tauqua to the community of Irving, where route five and route twenty
3 merge with Old Lake Shore road shall be designated and known as the "New
4 York Medal of Honor Highway".
5 § 3. Section 344-h of the highway law, as added by chapter 285 of the
6 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
7 § 344-h. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
8 "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz [Memorial] - New York Medal of Honor High-
9 way". All that portion of the state highway system constituting state
10 route twenty in the village of Fredonia, county of Chautauqua, shall be
11 designated and known as the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz [Memorial] - New
12 York Medal of Honor Highway".
13 § 4. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
14 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
15 as designated pursuant to sections one, two and three of this act.
16 However, to avoid confusion and to limit any possible disruption of
17 commerce, the designations called for pursuant to sections one, two and
18 three of this act shall each be one of ceremonial nature and the offi-
19 cial name of such highway shall not be changed as a result of this act.
20 § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
