Bill Text: NY S06020 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends the "POW-MIA Memorial Highway" through the counties of Madison, Chenango and Broome.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - SIGNED CHAP.261 [S06020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06020-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6020--B
            Cal. No. 1497
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SEWARD, VALESKY, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged  and
          said  bill  committed  to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the highway law, in relation to extending the "POW-MIA
          Memorial Highway"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 343-m of the highway law, as added by chapter 96 of
     2  the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  343-m. Portion of the state highway system to be known as the "POW-
     4  MIA Memorial Highway". All that portion  of  the  state  highway  system
     5  constituting  state  route  twelve  beginning at the town of Morristown,
     6  county of St. Lawrence and continuing  south  through  the  counties  of
     7  Jefferson  [and],  Lewis  [to  Court Street in the city of Utica, county
     8  of], Oneida, Madison and Chenango to its intersection with  state  route
     9  twelve-a  in the town of Chenango, county of Broome, shall be designated
    10  and known as the "POW-MIA Memorial Highway".
    11    § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
    12  lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
    13  as designated pursuant to section one of this  act.  However,  to  avoid
    14  confusion  and  to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
    15  nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall  be  one  of
    16  ceremonial  nature  and  the  official name of such highway shall not be
    17  changed as a result of this act.
    18    § 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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