STATE OF NEW YORK
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9764
IN SENATE
May 29, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 in Kings county as the "Fort Hamilton Veter-
ans Memorial 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-p to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-p. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Fort Hamilton Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state
5 highway system constituting interstate route 278 in the county of Kings,
6 beginning at the Verrazano-Narrows bridge, continuing in a generally
7 northerly direction, and terminating where such route crosses over 6th
8 avenue, shall be designated and known as the "Fort Hamilton Veterans
9 Memorial Highway".
10 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
11 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
12 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid
13 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
14 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
15 ceremonial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be
16 changed as a result of this act.
17 § 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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