Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system constituting the bridge crossing over the Hudson River on state route four hundred seventy as the "Assemblyman Pat M. Casale Memorial Bridge".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7162
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- 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 as the "Assemblyman Pat M. Casale 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-o to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-o. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
4 "Assemblyman Pat M. Casale Memorial Bridge". All that portion of the
5 state highway system constituting the bridge crossing over the Hudson
6 River on state route four hundred seventy between Delaware Avenue in the
7 city of Cohoes, county of Albany and First Avenue in the city of Troy,
8 county of Rensselaer, shall be designated and known as the "Assemblyman
9 Pat M. Casale Memorial Bridge".
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 bridge 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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