As Reported by House Transportation and Public Safety Committee   1            

123rd General Assembly                                             4            

   Regular Session                                 H. B. No. 408   5            

      1999-2000                                                    6            


REPRESENTATIVES VERICH-SULZER-TAYLOR-FLANNERY-GERBERRY-HARTNETT-   8            

VESPER-GOODMAN-TIBERI-NETZLEY-WILLAMOWSKI-BOYD-HOLLISTER-SCHULER-  9            

BARRETT-LOGAN-MOTTLEY-BUCHY-O'BRIEN-DePIERO-ALLEN-OPFER-BRITTON-   10           

       CLANCY-CAREY-METTLER-OLMAN-PERRY-PATTON-DAMSCHRODER         11           


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To enact section 5533.09 of the Revised Code to       14           

                designate Interstate Route 76 "The Military Order  15           

                of the Purple Heart Memorial  Highway."            16           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        18           

      Section 1.  That section 5533.09 of the Revised Code be      20           

enacted to read as follows:                                        21           

      Sec. 5533.09.  THAT PORTION OF THE ROAD KNOWN AS INTERSTATE  23           

ROUTE SEVENTY-SIX, RUNNING IN AN EASTERLY AND WESTERLY DIRECTION,  24           

COMMENCING AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH INTERSTATE SEVENTY-ONE IN      25           

MEDINA COUNTY AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SUMMIT AND     28           

PORTAGE TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH INTERSTATE EIGHTY IN MAHONING     30           

COUNTY, SHALL BE KNOWN AS "THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART  31           

MEMORIAL HIGHWAY."                                                 32           

      THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION MAY ERECT SUITABLE MARKERS    34           

ALONG THE HIGHWAY INDICATING ITS NAME.                             35