H0178B0694A00565 MSP:BTW 04/13/15 #90 A00565
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 178
Sponsor: SENATOR TOMLINSON
Printer's No. 694
Amend Bill, page 1, line 12, by striking out "AND"
Amend Bill, page 1, line 16, by striking out the period after
"BRIDGE" and inserting
; and designating a portion of State Route 2029 and 2049, also
known as Bath Road, in Bristol Township, Bucks County, as the
Sergeant George Stuckey Memorial Road.
Amend Bill, page 5, by inserting between lines 5 and 6
Section 6. Sergeant George Stuckey Memorial Road.
(a) Findings.--
(1) Sergeant George F. Stuckey was born June 29, 1939,
in Michigan and came to the Bucks County area when he was a
child. He was a graduate of Delhaas High School.
(2) Sergeant Stuckey was a police officer with the
Bristol Township Police Department where he served for seven
years. He held the rank of detective for five years before
becoming acting sergeant in the detective division. He served
as the department's photographic expert.
(3) Sergeant Stuckey made the ultimate sacrifice on
March 29, 1972, when he was shot and killed in the line of
duty while stopping a vehicle involved in a bank robbery
along Bath Road in Bristol Township. The shooting occurred
only a couple hundred feet from the police headquarters.
(4) Sergeant Stuckey was the first police officer in
Bucks County to be killed in the line of duty.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 2029, known as
Bath Road, that runs between US Route 13 (Segment 10) to Oxford
Valley Road (Segment 40) and the section of State Route 2049,
also known as Bath Road, that runs between Oxford Valley Road
(Segment 10) to State Route 413 (Segment 40) in Bristol
Township, Bucks County, are hereby designated as the Sergeant
George Stuckey Memorial Road.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Amend Bill, page 5, line 6, by striking out "6" and inserting
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