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2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 52
BY SENATOR ABRAHAM
ROADS/HIGHWAYS. Designates the Black Bayou Bridge on Louisiana Highway 384 in
Calcasieu Parish as the "Dorothy Carter Memorial Bridge". (gov sig)
1 AN ACT
2 To provide relative to state highways; to designate the Black Bayou Bridge on Louisiana
3 Highway 384 in Calcasieu Parish as the "Dorothy Carter Memorial Bridge"; to
4 provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the Black Bayou
7 Bridge on Louisiana Highway 384 in Calcasieu Parish is hereby designated as the
8 "Dorothy Carter Memorial Bridge".
9 Section 2. The Department of Transportation and Development is hereby
10 directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs of this designation provided local or
11 private monies are received by the department equal to the department's actual costs
12 for material, fabrication, mounting posts, and installation of each sign, not to exceed
13 the sum of five hundred fifty dollars per sign.
14 Section 3. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
15 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
16 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
17 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
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1 effective on the day following such approval.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Archana D. Cadge.
DIGEST
SB 52 Engrossed 2022 Regular Session Abraham
Proposed law designates the Black Bayou Bridge on Louisiana Highway 384 in Calcasieu
Parish is hereby designated as the "Dorothy Carter Memorial Bridge".
Proposed law directs DOTD to erect and maintain appropriate signs of this designation when
certain costs provisions are met.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Transportation,
Highways, and Public Works to the original bill
1. Provides for certain costs provisions.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.