Bill Text: CA SCR13 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 86, Statutes of 2013. [SCR13 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR13-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 13	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   Relative to the Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial
Bridge.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 13, as amended, Nielsen. Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted"
Lyon Memorial Bridge.
   This measure would designate the  North Market Street
Bridge   Sacram   ento River Bridge (#6-14)
 located on State Highway Route 273 as it crosses the Sacramento
River into downtown in the City of Redding as the Redding Police
Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge. The measure would request
the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for
appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon was born on June 6, 1931,
in Socorro, New Mexico. He graduated from Red Bluff High School in
1949 and went on to junior college for one and one-half years to
study electrical engineering. He worked for the Paul Bunyan Lumber
Company in Anderson, California, from April 1957 to September 1961,
inclusive. On September 7, 1961, he joined the Redding Police
Department; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Ted Lyon was killed in the line of duty on May
18, 1967. He and his partner, Jon Kelbaugh, had responded to the
address of 1047 Gilbert Street in the City of Redding on a domestic
violence incident where it had been reported that a drunk man had
been fighting with his wife in an apartment and had threatened her
with a gun; and
   WHEREAS, As both officers approached the front door on foot, a man
stepped out from behind the door firing a .32 caliber handgun and
Officer Lyon was shot in the  chest   abdomen
 by the suspect and fell to the ground still holding his service
weapon and Officer Kelbaugh was also shot in the abdomen and the
back; and
   WHEREAS, After retreating, Officer Kelbaugh, who survived the
assault engaged the suspect in a gun battle using a shotgun and the
suspect was killed. Officer Kelbaugh loaded Officer Lyon into a
police unit and drove him to the Redding Medical Center where he died
approximately 24 hours later; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Lyon was 35 years of age, had six years of
service with the Redding Police Department, and was survived by
 his brother, Herbert Lyon, his nephew, Curtis Lyon, and his
daughter, Tina Combs   his wife, Joanne Gifford, his
mother, Alice Lyon, his daughter, Tina Combs, his two stepsons, John
and Jim Hunt, his three brothers, Herbert, Terry, and Jerry Lyon, his
sister, Roena Callison, and his   nephew, Curtis Lyon 
; and
   WHEREAS, Many officers from the Redding Police Department and the
Shasta County Sheriff's Department responded to the hospital to
donate blood and nearly 60 pints of blood were collected in an effort
to save the life of Officer Lyon; and
   WHEREAS, On September 18, 2012, the Redding City Council
unanimously approved authorization for the Redding Police Department
to proceed with this request to create the Redding Police Officer
Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Lyon made the ultimate sacrifice in the
performance of his duties protecting his fellow citizens, and because
his dedication to duty is in the highest tradition of law
enforcement and the Redding Police Department; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature designates the 
North Market Street Bridge   Sacramento River Bridge
(#6-14)  in Redding as the Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted"
Lyon Memorial Bridge as a fitting tribute to his memory, service, and
sacrifice; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation install signs on
 the  Sacramento River Bridge  (  #6-14  )
 , located on State Highway Route 273 where it crosses the
Sacramento River into downtown in the City of Redding, with one sign
to be located on the northbound side of the bridge at milepost 17.08
and the second sign to be located on the southbound side of the
bridge at milepost 17.23; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs, consistent with
the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the  Department   Director 
of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.