2017 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 60
BY SENATORS WALSWORTH, ALARIO, APPEL, BARROW, BISHOP,
BOUDREAUX, CARTER, CORTEZ, DONAHUE, ERDEY, FANNIN,
HEWITT, JOHNS, LAFLEUR, LAMBERT, LONG, LUNEAU,
MARTINY, MILKOVICH, MILLS, MIZELL, PEACOCK, PERRY,
PETERSON, RISER, GARY SMITH, JOHN SMITH, TARVER,
THOMPSON, WARD AND WHITE AND REPRESENTATIVES
ANDERS, BACALA, BARRAS, BERTHELOT, BILLIOT,
BROADWATER, TERRY BROWN, CHANEY, CONNICK, COX,
CREWS, EDMONDS, GAROFALO, HENRY, HOFFMANN, HUNTER,
JACKSON, TERRY LANDRY, MARCELLE, MIGUEZ, GREGORY
MILLER, JAY MORRIS, PIERRE, RICHARD AND TALBOT
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact Section 1 of Act No. 23 of the 2010 Regular Session of the
3 Legislature, relative to state highways; to change the designation of a portion of
4 Interstate 20 in Ouachita Parish to the "Servicemen Powell, Barnes, and Deal
5 Memorial Highway"; to designate a portion of United States Highway 425 in the
6 unincorporated community of Chase, in Franklin Parish, as the "Trooper Bobby
7 Smith 'Vision of Courage' Memorial Highway"; to designate a portion of United
8 States Highway 165 near the town of Sterlington, in Ouachita Parish, as the
9 "Sterlington Police Officer David Elahi Memorial Highway"; to designate a portion
10 of Louisiana Highway 557 in the city of West Monroe as the "Justin Levi Beard
11 Memorial Highway"; and to provide for related matters.
ACT No. 398
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1 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
2 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, that portion of United
3 States Highway 425 between Stokes Bayou (structure number 0260612911) and Louisiana
4 Highway 1242 in the unincorporated community of Chase, in Franklin Parish, is hereby
5 designated as the "Trooper Bobby Smith 'Vision of Courage' Memorial Highway".
6 Section 2. That portion of United States Highway 165 between Louisiana Highway
7 134 and a point two and one-half miles south of Louisiana Highway 134 near the town of
8 Sterlington, in Ouachita Parish, is hereby designated as the "Sterlington Police Officer David
9 Elahi Memorial Highway".
10 Section 3. The portion of Louisiana Highway 557 from five hundred feet south of
11 its intersection with Pine Bluff Road to two hundred feet north of its intersection with
12 Proffer Road in the Luna Community of the city of West Monroe, Louisiana, in Ouachita
13 Parish, is hereby designated as the "Justin Levi Beard Memorial Highway".
14 Section 4. Section 1 of Act No. 23 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature
15 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
16 Section 1. Interstate 20 in Ouachita Parish between the Interstate 20 World
17 War II Memorial Bridge in West Monroe and the Lincoln/Ouachita Parish Line is
18 hereby designated as the "Servicemen Powell, Barnes, and Deal Memorial
19 Highway" in honor of Marine Corporal Chad Powell of West Monroe who as a
20 member of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force of Camp
21 Lejeune, North Carolina, was killed on June 25, 2005, when his convoy was attacked
22 by a car bomb in Fallujah, Iraq; Lance Corporal Matthew Barnes of West Monroe
23 who as a member of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division,
24 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was killed on
25 February 14, 2006, when a suicide bomber attacked his vehicle near Al Qa'im, Iraq;
26 and Petty Officer 3rd Class Lee Hamilton Deal of West Monroe, who as a member
27 of the Navy Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, assigned
28 to the 2nd Marine Division Fleet Marine Force Atlantic of Camp Lejeune, North
29 Carolina, was killed on May 17, 2006, while clearing an area of insurgent activity
30 in Anbar Province, Iraq.
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1 Section 5. The Department of Transportation and Development is hereby directed
2 to erect and maintain appropriate signs of these designations, provided local or private
3 monies are received by the department equal to the department's actual costs for the material,
4 fabrication cost, mounting posts, and installation required for installation of each sign, not
5 to exceed the sum of five hundred fifty dollars per sign.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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