Bill Text: NY A06241 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates the Queens Midtown tunnel as the "New York State First Responders Tunnel".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-17 - print number 6241a [A06241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06241-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6241--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DenDEKKER, RA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on  Trans-
          portation  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as "New York State First Responders Tunnel"
          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-h to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-h.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "New York State First Responders Tunnel". The Queens Midtown tunnel that
     5  crosses under the East river connecting state route four  hundred  nine-
     6  ty-five,  in  the  borough  of Queens, county of Queens with 34th street
     7  between First avenue and Second avenue  in  the  borough  of  Manhattan,
     8  county of New York, shall be designated and known as the "New York State
     9  First Responders Tunnel".
    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  tunnel  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.
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