A05855
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1954
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY GABLER, BARRAR, BERNSTINE, BURNS, CAUSER, COX,
DEASY, DONATUCCI, GREINER, HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, HILL-EVANS,
KIM, KINSEY, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, METZGAR, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT,
NEILSON, OWLETT, PICKETT, READSHAW, ROTHMAN, RYAN, SAINATO,
SCHMITT, SONNEY, STAATS, STRUZZI, YOUNGBLOOD AND CONKLIN,
MARCH 4, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 4, 2020
AN ACT
Designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 15552, on that
portion of carrying U.S. Route 219 over Elk Creek, Ridgway
Borough, Elk County, as the Elk County Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Elk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge.
(a) Designation.--The bridge located on, identified as
Bridge Key 15552, carrying U.S. Route 219 over the Elk Creek,
Ridgway Borough, Elk County, is designated as the Elk County
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge in recognition of the men and
women who bravely served in the Vietnam Conflict and the
following individuals who sacrificed their lives for their
country:
(1) Jerome Edward Bowers, Jr., United States Army.
(2) Larry Wayne Gardner, United States Marine Corps.
(3) Michael Gigliotti, United States Army.
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(4) John Paul Paropacic, United States Marine Corps.
(5) Jerome Robert Sain, United States Army.
(6) John Ellsworth Showers, Jr., United States Army.
(7) Robert Glenn Willow, United States Marine Corps.
(8) Paul Eugene Yonkie, United States Air Force.
(b) 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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