Assembly Bill A4377

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Changes the official name of the Staten Island Expressway to the POW-MIA Memorial Highway

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A4377 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2681
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
State Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §121, State L; amd §§340-a, 343-a & 349-f, Hway L; amd §§3-202 & 11-243, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A3745, S4971
2017-2018: A6209, S4629
2019-2020: A4911, S3856
2021-2022: A5757, S4915
2023-2024: A4730, S4187

2015-A4377 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the official name of the Staten Island Expressway to the "POW-MIA Memorial Highway".

2015-A4377 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  4377

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the state law, the highway law  and  the  administrative
  code of the city of New York in relation to renaming the Staten Island
  Expressway the "POW-MIA Memorial Highway"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the official
name of all that portion of the state highway system located in Richmond
county constituting route 440 from Outerbridge  Crossing  to  route  278
(West  Shore  Expressway)  and route 278 from the Goethals bridge to the
Verrazano-Narrows  bridge  (Staten  Island  Expressway)  shall  be   the
"POW-MIA  Memorial  Highway",  as  such highway is designated in section
343-h of the highway law.
  S 2. Subdivisions 63 and 64 of section 121 of the state law, as  added
by chapter 16 of the laws of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
  63.  Sixty-third district. In the county of Richmond, that part of the
borough of Staten Island bounded by a line described as follows:  Begin-
ning at the point where the New York/New Jersey border intersects with a
line extended northwesterly from Harbor Road, thence southeasterly along
said line to Harbor Road, thence southerly along  said  road  to  Forest
Avenue,  thence  easterly along said avenue to Summerfield Place, thence
southerly along said place to Francesca  Lane,  thence  southerly  along
said  lane  to  Ludwig  Lane,  thence easterly along said lane to a line
extended westerly from Baron Hirch  Cemetery  Pathway,  thence  easterly
along said line to said pathway, thence southeasterly along said pathway
to  Richmond  Avenue,  thence  southwesterly  along  said  avenue to the
[Staten Island Expressway] POW-MIA MEMORIAL HIGHWAY, thence southeaster-
ly  along  said  [expressway]  HIGHWAY  to  Victory  Boulevard,   thence
northeasterly  along  said boulevard to Woolley Avenue, thence northerly
along said avenue to Delmore Street, thence easterly along said street a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01642-01-5
              

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