Bill Text: NY A10054 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the Waverly Ave overpass at Sunrise Highway near exit 52 in town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county, as the "Lieutenant Commander Phillip Wayne Johnson Memorial Bridge".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-29 - referred to transportation [A10054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10054-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10054

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system the "Lieutenant Commander Phillip Wayne John-
          son 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-n to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-n.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Lieutenant Commander Phillip Wayne Johnson Memorial Bridge".  All  that
     5  portion of the state highway system constituting the Waverly Ave (County
     6  Road  19)  overpass  at  Sunrise  Highway (State Route 27) near exit 52,
     7  designated bridge number 1367500, in the town of Brookhaven,  county  of
     8  Suffolk, shall be known as the "Lieutenant Commander Phillip Wayne John-
     9  son 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.
                                                                   LBD15004-01-2