PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1738
PRINTER'S NO. 1774
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1216
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY STEFANO, APRIL 28, 2016
SENATOR RAFFERTY, TRANSPORTATION, AS AMENDED, MAY 10, 2016
AN ACT
Designating the bridge carrying State Route 3087 over Jacobs
Creek connecting Scottdale, Westmoreland County, and Everson,
Fayette County, as the Private First Class Joseph Anthony
Petrarca/Staff Sergeant John William Earnesty Memorial
Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Private First Class Joseph Anthony Petrarca/Staff
Sergeant John William Earnesty Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Private First Class (PFC) Joseph Anthony Petrarca
was born on March 22, 1948, and was a 1968 graduate of
Southmoreland High School.
(2) PFC Petrarca served in the 1st Cavalry Division, 1st
Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Company E, and was killed in action
on March 17, 1969, in South Vietnam, just five days before
his birthday.
(3) PFC Petrarca was the only resident of Scottdale,
Westmoreland County to lose his life in the Vietnam War.
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(4) Staff Sergeant (S SGT) John William Earnesty was
born on October 2, 1928, and was a veteran of World War II
and the Korean War.
(5) S SGT Earnesty served in South Vietnam with the 25th
Infantry Division, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, Company C.
(6) On December 11, 1966, S SGT Earnesty was killed in
South Vietnam after the armored personnel carrier in which he
was riding detonated a land mine.
(7) S SGT Earnesty was the only resident of Everson,
Fayette County, to lose his life in the Vietnam War.
(b) Designation.--The bridge carrying State Route 3087 over
Jacobs Creek connecting Scottdale, Westmoreland County, and
Everson, Fayette County, is hereby designated the Private First
Class Joseph Anthony Petrarca/Staff Sergeant John William
Earnesty Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the road
BRIDGE to traffic in both directions on OF the road BRIDGE.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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