STATE OF NEW YORK
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6020--A
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
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 of cere-
16 monial nature and the official name of such highway shall not be changed
17 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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