What's happening
This bill designates specific locations in Monroe and Tioga counties for memorial highway signs honoring fallen law enforcement officers.
Why it matters
Demonstrates community recognition for law enforcement sacrifice. By specifically naming fallen deputies and officers on highway memorial signs, the bill publicly honors their service and helps preserve their stories in local memory.
Fosters local identity and civic pride. Placing memorials at precise locations in Monroe and Tioga counties creates lasting landmarks that connect residents and travelers with local history and the individuals who protected their communities.
Balances commemoration with practical concerns. The bill ensures that memorial signs are ceremonial and do not change the official names of roads, minimizing confusion for navigation and commerce while still enabling public tribute.
Signals legislative priorities. The act highlights the value state lawmakers place on acknowledging law enforcement officers’ sacrifices, potentially influencing broader discussions about public service recognition and support.
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.674
- Reported and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1230
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- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
59
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating certain portions of the state highway system in the counties of Monroe and Tioga
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 344-i to read as follows:
§ 344-i. Portion of the state highway system in the counties of Monroe and Tioga to be memorialized. Certain portions of the state highway system in the counties of Monroe and Tioga are memorialized as follows with signage:
1. At state route three hundred eighty-three at 21 Caledonia Avenue in the village of Scottsville, county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Deputy Simon J. Bermingham Memorial Site";
2. At state route sixty-five, known as Clover Street, near the intersection with Highland Avenue, in the town of Brighton, county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Special Deputy Joseph G. Munz Memorial Site";
3. At state route three hundred eighty-three near the Scottsville Village line in the county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Deputy William Marshall Memorial Site";
4. At state route three hundred eighty-three at the Black Creek Hotel in the county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Deputy James I. Conheady Memorial Site";
5. At the intersection of state route three hundred eighty-three and state route two hundred fifty-two in the town of Chili in the county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Deputy John A. Pullano Memorial Site";
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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6. Westbound on state route seventeen in the town of Owego in the county of Tioga there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Undersheriff George A. Conway Memorial Site";
7. On state route three hundred eighty-three near North Road near the village of Scottsville town line in the county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Deputy Frank Dombrowski Memorial Site"; and
8. On state route sixty-five southbound, south of state route two hundred fifty-two approximately two hundred feet north of the entrance to the Tobey Village Office Park in the county of Monroe there shall be a memorial sign that reads "Sergeant Robert M. Skelton Jr. Memorial Site".
§ 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system as memorialized pursuant to section one of this act; provided that, to avoid any confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the memorialization called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of ceremonial nature and the official name of such place or highway shall not be changed as a result of this act.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to desig- nating certain portions of the state highway system in the counties of Monroe and Tioga
Purpose
This bill will help honor police officers killed in the line of duty by allowing for roadside memorial signs to be installed on state highways.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the highway law by adding a new section 344-f
Justification
In many areas throughout the country, memorial signs are dedicated to honor fallen officers and their families at the location where they died. The state Department of Transportation has traditionally restricted signage on state roads to notices for drivers and other personnel such as law enforcement and snowplow drivers. This bill would change this tradition and would allow New York to begin to memorialize our fallen officers with signage on certain portions of state highways. Specifically, this bill would memorialize the following fallen officers: Deputy Simon J. Bermingham; Deputy Joseph G. Munz; Deputy William Mars- hall; Deputy James I. Conheady; Deputy John Pullano; Undersheriff George A. Conway; Deputy Frank Dombrowski; and Sergeant Robert Skeleton, Jr. Providing highway memorial signage is a small, overdue way that New York State can honor its police officers killed in the line of duty.
Prior legislative history
2014 - 2015 Passed Senate 2017 - 2018 Passed Senate
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
Immediately.
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