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S. B. No. 37 As Reported by the Senate Highways and Transportation CommitteeAs Reported by the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee
129th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2011-2012 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Bacon, Grendell, Sawyer, Seitz
A BILL
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.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
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.
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