PRINTER'S NO. 2051
No. 1649 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY SCRIMENTI, BOYES, SEYFERT, CAPPABIANCA AND BEBKO-
JONES, JUNE 11, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 11, 1997
AN ACT
1 Designating a section of the Southern Tier Expressway in Erie
2 County, Pennsylvania, as the Forest W. Hopkins Memorial
3 Highway.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. (a) The eight-mile section of Route 17 in Erie
7 County, from Greenfield Township to the New York State line, is
8 hereby designated and shall be known as the Forest W. Hopkins
9 Memorial Highway.
10 (b) Forest W. Hopkins was a committed community servant, who
11 served with distinction as a State Representative from the
12 Fourth Legislative District from 1967 to 1978. Mr. Hopkins died
13 in office in 1978.
14 Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall erect and
15 maintain road signs, which shall display the name of Forest W.
16 Hopkins Memorial Highway, at the beginning and the end of the
17 section of the highway designated in section 1.
18 Section 3. This act shall take effect 60 days after the
1 project completion date, notice of which shall be published in
2 the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
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