PRINTER'S NO. 1928
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1315
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON, JUNE 14, 2016
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 14, 2016
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 4010 over
Sugar Creek, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango County, as the
Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Lieutenant Andrew J. White was a 12-year veteran of
the fire service. He came from a family of firefighters,
starting his career in the fire service at 14 years of age
when he was inducted into the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire
Department as a junior firefighter. At 16 years of age he
became an active firefighter and regular member of the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(2) Lt. White participated in training and progressed
through the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire Department. He later
became an emergency medical technician and served as
Lieutenant of Rocky Grove's Station #2 from 1999 to 2001.
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(3) Lt. White was killed in the line of duty on January
11, 2001, while fighting a structure fire with the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(4) Lt. White lived in the Sugarcreek area his entire
life. The Sugarcreek Bridge is within one-half mile of where
he resided, and he had traversed this bridge countless times
when responding to calls during his service with the Rocky
Grove Volunteer Fire Department.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of
State Route 4010 over Sugar Creek, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango
County, commonly known as the Sugarcreek Bridge or Twin Bridges,
is hereby designated the Lieutenant Andrew J. White Memorial
Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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