(2) The director of transportation, in consultation with the | 21 |
appropriate county sheriffs, shall designate portions of state | 22 |
highways, portions of county roads, or a combination of such | 23 |
portions, with each portion or combined portions not exceeding | 24 |
twenty miles in total length, as a memorial highway in honor of | 25 |
each county sheriff or deputy sheriff who is or has been killed in | 26 |
the line of duty. | 27 |
(3) The director of transportation, in consultation with the | 28 |
appropriate township constable or chief of a township police | 29 |
department or district, shall designate portions of state | 30 |
highways, portions of county roads, portions of township roads, or | 31 |
a combination of such portions, with each portion or combined | 32 |
portions not exceeding twenty miles in total length, as a memorial | 33 |
highway in honor of each township constable or police officer of a | 34 |
township police department or district who is or has been killed | 35 |
in the line of duty. | 36 |
(4) The director of transportation, in consultation with the | 37 |
appropriate chiefs of the law enforcement agencies of municipal | 38 |
corporations, shall designate portions of state highways, portions | 39 |
of county roads, portions of township roads, a combination of such | 40 |
portions, or a combination of such portions and a portion of a | 41 |
street or highway located within a municipal corporation, with | 42 |
each portion or combined portions not exceeding twenty miles in | 43 |
total length, as a memorial highway in honor of each police | 44 |
officer of a law enforcement agency of a municipal corporation who | 45 |
is or has been killed in the line of duty. | 46 |
(B) In acting under this section, the director of | 47 |
transportation may designate a portion of a state highway, county | 48 |
or township road, or street or highway located within a municipal | 49 |
corporation that has been given a designation in Chapter 5533. of | 50 |
the Revised Code, and if the director does so that portion shall | 51 |
have both names. If the director designates any such portion under | 52 |
this section and that portion subsequently is given a designation | 53 |
in Chapter 5533. of the Revised Code, that portion shall have both | 54 |
names unless the designation in Chapter 5533. of the Revised Code | 55 |
expressly provides otherwise. | 56 |