STATE OF NEW YORK
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6377
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
the state highway system as the "Sgt. Daniel J. Murtha 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-m to
2 read as follows:
3 § 344-m. Portion of the state highway system to be designated and
4 known as the "Sgt. Daniel J. Murtha Memorial Bridge". All that portion
5 of the state highway system constituting the bridge on route nineteen,
6 designated bridge number 1015150, which crosses the Oatka creek one-
7 tenth of a mile south of the junction of routes nineteen and twenty-a,
8 in the town of Warsaw, county of Wyoming, shall be known as the "Sgt.
9 Daniel J. Murtha 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.
LBD02272-01-1
