Bill Text: NY A07696 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Nichols, county of Tioga, on state route seventeen between exits sixty-three and sixty-two as the "Dennis 'Matt' Howe Memorial Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-09 - SIGNED CHAP.158 [A07696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07696-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7696--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Transportation  --  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 in the county of Tioga as the  Dennis  "Matt"
          Howe 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-i to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 344-i. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
     4  "Dennis  'Matt'  Howe  Memorial  Highway". All that portion of the state
     5  highway system located in the town of Nichols, county of Tioga, consist-
     6  ing of state route seventeen beginning  at  exit  sixty-two,  continuing
     7  generally  easterly, and terminating at exit sixty-three shall be desig-
     8  nated and known as the "Dennis 'Matt' Howe Memorial Highway".
     9    § 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the  instal-
    10  lation  and  maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
    11  as designated pursuant to section one of this act.   However,  to  avoid
    12  confusion  and  to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the desig-
    13  nation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall  be  one  of
    14  ceremonial  nature  and  the  official name of such highway shall not be
    15  changed as a result of this act.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10998-04-9