New York A 8134: Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Fort de la Presentation

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8134
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 1, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as the  "Fort  de  la  Presentation  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 345-d to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 345-d. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
     4  "Fort  de  la  Presentation  Memorial  Highway". All that portion of the
     5  state highway system constituting state route sixty-eight  beginning  at
     6  the  intersection of state route sixty-eight and Albany Avenue, continu-
     7  ing in a generally  northeasterly  direction,  and  terminating  at  the
     8  intersection  of state route sixty-eight and Commerce Street in the city
     9  of Ogdensburg, county of St. Lawrence, shall be designated and known  as
    10  the "Fort de la Presentation 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  (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
                              [] is old law to be omitted. 
                                                                   LBD11702-01-5