Designates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Nichols, county of Tioga, on state route seventeen between exits sixty-three and sixty-two as the "Dennis 'Matt' Howe Memorial Highway".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7696--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
the state highway system in the county of Tioga as the Dennis "Matt"
Howe 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-i to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-i. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Dennis 'Matt' Howe Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state
5 highway system located in the town of Nichols, county of Tioga, consist-
6 ing of state route seventeen beginning at exit sixty-two, continuing
7 generally easterly, and terminating at exit sixty-three shall be desig-
8 nated and known as the "Dennis 'Matt' Howe Memorial Highway".
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.
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