STATE OF NEW YORK
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6548
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 5, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 "Staff Sergeant Peter J. Blidy Memori-
al 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 "Staff Sergeant Peter J. Blidy Memorial Bridge". All that
5 portion of the state highway system constituting the bridge on Vers-
6 ailles Plank Road, designated bridge number 6050680, which crosses Clear
7 creek one and one-half miles northeast of Versailles, in the town of
8 Collins, county of Erie, shall be known as the "Staff Sergeant Peter J.
9 Blidy 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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