STATE OF NEW YORK
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4900--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
the state highway system as the "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs 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 345-b to
2 read as follows:
3 § 345-b. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial Highway". All that portion of state
5 route nine in the town of Fishkill, county of Dutchess, shall be desig-
6 nated and known as the "Sergeant Elijah A. Briggs Memorial Highway".
7 § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
8 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
9 as designated pursuant to section one of this act. However, to avoid
10 confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
11 nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
12 ceremonial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be
13 changed as a result of this act.
14 § 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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