To enact section 5501.70 of the Revised Code to require the Director of Transportation to designate portions of state highways, county or township roads, or streets or highways located within municipal corporations as memorial highways in honor of each State Highway Patrol trooper, county sheriff, deputy sheriff, township constable, or police officer of a township police department or district or law enforcement agency of a municipal corporation who is or has been killed in the line of duty.

Section 1. That section 5501.70 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 5501.70. (A)(1) The director of transportation, in consultation with the director of public safety and the superintendent of the state highway patrol, shall designate portions of state highways, with each portion not exceeding twenty miles in length, as a separate memorial highway in honor of each state highway patrol trooper who is or has been killed in the line of duty.

(2) The director of transportation, in consultation with the appropriate county sheriffs, shall designate portions of state highways, portions of county roads, or a combination of such portions, with each portion or combined portions not exceeding twenty miles in total length, as a memorial highway in honor of each county sheriff or deputy sheriff who is or has been killed in the line of duty.

(3) The director of transportation, in consultation with the appropriate township constable or chief of a township police department or district, shall designate portions of state highways, portions of county roads, portions of township roads, or a combination of such portions, with each portion or combined portions not exceeding twenty miles in total length, as a memorial highway in honor of each township constable or police officer of a township police department or district who is or has been killed in the line of duty.

(4) The director of transportation, in consultation with the appropriate chiefs of the law enforcement agencies of municipal corporations, shall designate portions of state highways, portions of county roads, portions of township roads, a combination of such portions, or a combination of such portions and a portion of a street or highway located within a municipal corporation, with each portion or combined portions not exceeding twenty miles in total length, as a memorial highway in honor of each police officer of a law enforcement agency of a municipal corporation who is or has been killed in the line of duty.

(B) In acting under this section, the director of transportation may designate a portion of a state highway, county or township road, or street or highway located within a municipal corporation that has been given a designation in Chapter 5533. of the Revised Code, and if the director does so that portion shall have both names. If the director designates any such portion under this section and that portion subsequently is given a designation in Chapter 5533. of the Revised Code, that portion shall have both names unless the designation in Chapter 5533. of the Revised Code expressly provides otherwise.

(C) Upon a designation made under this section, the director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the state highway, county or township road, or street or highway located within a municipal corporation indicating its name.