HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 214, 593 PRINTER'S NO. 1058
No. 201 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY DENT, WONDERLING, BRIGHTBILL AND BOSCOLA,
FEBRUARY 6, 2003
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JULY 7, 2003
AN ACT
1 Designating Interstate 78 in Lehigh and Northampton Counties
2 from the Berks County Line to the Delaware River as the
3 Walter J. Dealtrey Memorial Highway; AND DESIGNATING A <--
4 PORTION OF STATE ROUTE 837 IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY AS CHARLES R.
5 MCDEVITT HIGHWAY.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Walter J. Dealtrey Memorial Highway.
9 (a) Designation.--The portion of Interstate 78 in Lehigh and
10 Northampton Counties from the Berks County Line to the Delaware
11 River is hereby designated and shall be known as the Walter J.
12 Dealtrey Memorial Highway.
13 (b) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
14 maintain signs, which shall display the name of the highway
15 designated in subsection (a), at each end of the named segment.
16 SECTION 2. CHARLES R. MCDEVITT HIGHWAY. <--
17 (A) DESIGNATION.--THE SECTION OF STATE ROUTE 837 IN
18 ALLEGHENY COUNTY FROM THE ELIZABETH BRIDGE SOUTH TO THE
1 WASHINGTON-ALLEGHENY COUNTY LINE IS HEREBY DESIGNATED CHARLES R.
2 MCDEVITT HIGHWAY.
3 (B) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.--CHARLES R. (CHUCK) MCDEVITT
4 WAS A BELOVED AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF WEST ELIZABETH,
5 PENNSYLVANIA, AND, AT THE AGE OF 29, WAS ELECTED AS ITS FIRST
6 MAYOR IN 1961. HE SERVED AS MAYOR UNTIL 1973. HE ALSO SERVED AS
7 BOROUGH SECRETARY FOR 23 YEARS AND WAS BOROUGH COUNCIL
8 PRESIDENT, A DIRECTOR ON THE WEST JEFFERSON HILLS SCHOOL BOARD,
9 A MEMBER OF THE WEST ELIZABETH SANITARY AUTHORITY, A LIFETIME
10 MEMBER OF THE WEST ELIZABETH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY AND AN ARMY
11 VETERAN.
12 (C) SIGNS.--THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL ERECT AND
13 MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE SIGNS DISPLAYING THE NAME OF THE HIGHWAY TO
14 TRAFFIC IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ON THE HIGHWAY.
15 Section 2 3. Effective date. <--
16 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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