STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5673 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- 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 "Catholic War Veterans Memorial High- way" 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-o to 2 read as follows: 3 § 344-o. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the 4 "Catholic War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state 5 highway system constituting state route 32, from its intersection with 6 Quaker Avenue in the town of Cornwall, county of Orange, and continuing 7 north to its intersection with state routes 300 and 94, also known as 8 "Five Corners", in the hamlet of Vails Gate, county of Orange, shall be 9 designated and known as the "Catholic War Veterans Memorial Highway". 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 highway 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. LBD07916-02-3