PRINTER'S NO. 1216
No. 999 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, JUNE 25, 2007
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 25, 2007
AN ACT
1 Designating a portion of State Route 26 in Centre County as the
2 Marine Sergeant David "DJ" Emery, Jr. Highway.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Marine Sergeant David "DJ" Emery, Jr. Highway.
6 (a) Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and
7 declares as follows:
8 (1) David "DJ" Emery, Jr., was born August 23, 1985. He
9 graduated from Bellefonte Area High School in 2003 and
10 studied masonry at the Centre County Vocational-Technical
11 School. He was always an active outdoorsman and has a love of
12 motorcycles.
13 (2) Emery enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in
14 June 2003 and, following completion of basic training was
15 deployed to Iraq in 2004 and then again in 2006.
16 (3) Private First Class Emery served with distinction in
17 the 4th Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2/4 Gulf Company until
1 February 7, 2007, when he was seriously wounded in an attack
2 by a suicide bomber.
3 (4) Emery was promoted to Sergeant on May 9, 2007.
4 (b) Designation.--State Route 26 in Marion and Spring
5 Townships, Centre County, from segments 450/748 to 570/000 is
6 hereby designated as the Marine Sergeant David "DJ" Emery
7 Highway.
8 (c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
9 maintain appropriate signs to indicate the designation under
10 subsection (b).
11 Section 2. Effective date.
12 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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