SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 826

AND

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 883

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

     Reported from the Committee on Transportation, April 15, 2004, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

3386S.04C

AN ACT

To amend chapters 227 and 234, RSMo, by adding thereto three new sections relating to memorial highways.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A.  Chapters 227 and 237, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto three new sections, to be known as sections 227.346, 227.347, and 234.707, to read as follows:

            227.346.  The portion of interstate highway 70 between mile marker 69 in any county of the fourth classification with more than twenty-three thousand seven hundred but less than twenty-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants and east to mile marker 123 in any county of the first classification with more than one hundred thirty-five thousand four hundred but less than one hundred thirty-five thousand five hundred inhabitants, except where otherwise designated, shall be designated the "U.S. Submarine Veterans' Memorial Highway", and shall represent in its fifty-four mile stretch the fifty-four submarines lost during war and the Cold War.  The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the cost of such signs to be paid by the submarine veterans' association.

            227.347.  The portion of highway A beginning at the intersection of business route 60 on the town square in the city of Mansfield and proceeding east to its intersection with highway K in the city of Macomb, except where otherwise designated, shall be designated the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Highway" in dedication to the author and her contribution to the state of Missouri.  The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs commemorating this portion of highway A at its discretion, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum shall pay for all such signs.

            234.707.  The bridge, bridge number A4975, located at log mile 1.067 on Missouri Route 30 within Franklin County shall be designated the "Brown-Stinson Memorial Bridge".

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