Bill Text: NY S09764 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the highway system in Kings county as the "Fort Hamilton Veterans Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-11 - SIGNED CHAP.456 [S09764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09764-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9764

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 29, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system in Kings county as the "Fort Hamilton  Veter-
          ans Memorial Highway"

          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-p to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-p. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
     4  "Fort Hamilton Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state
     5  highway system constituting interstate route 278 in the county of Kings,
     6  beginning  at  the  Verrazano-Narrows  bridge, continuing in a generally
     7  northerly direction, and terminating where such route crosses  over  6th
     8  avenue,  shall  be  designated  and known as the "Fort Hamilton Veterans
     9  Memorial Highway".
    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 highway 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.
                                                                   LBD10288-06-4