PRINTER'S NO. 2622
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1881
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY DUSH, BRADFORD, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER,
CONKLIN, COX, DAVIS, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, HEFFLEY,
HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, LONGIETTI, MILLARD, MURT, MUSTIO,
PICKETT, READSHAW, RYAN, SONNEY, WARD AND WATSON,
OCTOBER 23, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 23, 2017
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 1041 over
the Mahoning Creek in Grant Township and Canoe Township,
Indiana County, as the Army SPC Christine L. Mayes Memorial
Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Army SPC Christine L. Mayes Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) SPC Christine L. Mayes was a native of Rochester
Mills and a graduate of Marion Center Area High School.
(2) SPC Mayes enlisted in the United States Army
following graduation from high school and served on active
duty for three years in Germany.
(3) After her release from active duty, SPC Mayes
continued to serve her country in the United States Army
Reserve with the 14th Quartermaster Detachment, 99th Army
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Reserve Command in Greensburg. Her unit was activated in
support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert
Storm.
(4) SPC Mayes was killed on February 25, 1991, when an
Iraqi scud missile destroyed a United States military
barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in the final days of the
Persian Gulf War.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of
State Route 1041 over the Mahoning Creek in Grant Township and
Canoe Township, Indiana County, is designated the Army SPC
Christine L. Mayes 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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