Bill Text: NY A05149 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of interstate eighty-seven as the "General Colin Powell Thruway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05149 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05149-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5149

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- 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 "General Colin Powell Thruway"

          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  "General  Colin  Powell  Thruway". All that portion of the state highway
     5  system constituting interstate route eighty-seven, beginning in the city
     6  of Yonkers, county of Westchester, and continuing north until it crosses
     7  state route twenty in the town of Guilderland, county of  Albany,  shall
     8  be designated and known as the "General Colin Powell Thruway".
     9    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    10  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    11  as  designated  pursuant  to  section one of this act. However, to avoid
    12  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    13  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    14  ceremonial nature and the official name of such  highway  shall  not  be
    15  changed as a result of this act.
    16    § 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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