As Reported by the Senate Highways and Transportation 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-SULLIVAN-    11           

    REDFERN-BENDER-D. MILLER-SCHUCK-SALERNO-FERDERBER-TRAKAS-      12           

CALVERT-DISTEL-GOODING-HARRIS-METZGER-STEVENS-WILSON-FORD-JONES-   13           

   CALLENDER-BARNES-PRINGLE-J. BEATTY-CATES-OGG-ROBERTS-MYERS-     14           

 ASLANIDES-WIDENER-ROBINSON-AUSTRIA-KRUPINSKI-ROMAN-YOUNG-SMITH-   15           

      R. MILLER-WOMER BENJAMIN-EVANS-SUTTON-SENATOR LATELL         16           


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To enact section 5533.09 of the Revised Code to       20           

                designate Interstate Route 76 "The Military Order  21           

                of the Purple Heart Memorial  Highway."            22           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        24           

      Section 1.  That section 5533.09 of the Revised Code be      26           

enacted to read as follows:                                        27           

      Sec. 5533.09.  THAT PORTION OF THE ROAD KNOWN AS INTERSTATE  29           

ROUTE SEVENTY-SIX, RUNNING IN AN EASTERLY AND WESTERLY DIRECTION,  30           

COMMENCING AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH INTERSTATE SEVENTY-ONE IN      31           

MEDINA COUNTY AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SUMMIT AND     34           

PORTAGE TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH INTERSTATE EIGHTY IN MAHONING     36           

COUNTY, SHALL BE KNOWN AS "THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART  37           

MEMORIAL HIGHWAY."                                                 38           

      THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION MAY ERECT SUITABLE MARKERS    40           

ALONG THE HIGHWAY INDICATING ITS NAME.                             41