PRINTER'S NO. 40
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
57
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY STRUZZI, BURNS, JAMES, KAUFFMAN, LONGIETTI,
SCHMITT, SMITH, JOZWIAK, COX, WEBSTER AND HILL-EVANS,
JANUARY 11, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 11, 2021
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 4001 over
Crooked Creek, Armstrong Township, Indiana County, as the
Sergeant Carl Roof Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sergeant Carl Roof Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Sergeant Carl Roof, a native of Armstrong Township,
served his country honorably during World War II.
(2) Twenty days after the Normandy invasion began,
Sergeant Roof was captured by the Germans near Nancy, France.
(3) For 11 months, Sergeant Roof suffered as a prisoner
of war in Stalag 12A, one of Germany's largest prisoner of
war camps.
(4) Sergeant Roof survived the internment and returned
home to Indiana County where he resumed dairy farming and
later worked for Caterpillar.
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(5) After the war, Sergeant Roof married his wife,
Frances, and had four children.
(6) Sergeant Roof served his community as a member of
the Indiana County Fair board and the Citizens Ambulance
board in Indiana.
(7) Sergeant Roof resided near the bridge on State Route
4001 over Crooked Creek.
(8) Sergeant Roof died on December 3, 2020, at age 98.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on State Route 4001
over Crooked Creek, Armstrong Township, Indiana County, is
designated the Sergeant Carl Roof 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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