SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 1029

AND

HOUSE BILL NO. 1438

AND

HOUSE BILL NO. 1610

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.

3793S.02C

AN ACT

To amend chapter 227, RSMo, by adding thereto four new sections relating to the designation of certain memorial highways.

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

            Section A.  Chapter 227, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto four new sections, to be known as sections 227.346, 227.349, 227.350, and 227.353, 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.

            227.349.  The portion of state highway J in Lincoln County from the intersection of state highway J and state highway 47 to the intersection of state highway J and state highway U shall be named the "Veterans Highway".

            227.350.  The portion of U.S. highway 67 in St. Francois County between state route 8 in Desloge and state route 32 in Leadington shall be designated the "Deputy Steven R. Ziegler Memorial Highway".  Costs for such designation shall be paid by private donations.

            227.353.  The portion of U.S. highway 67 in St. Francois County between Desloge and Bonne Terre shall be designated the "Trooper Jesse R. Jenkins Memorial Highway".  Costs for such designation shall be paid by private donations.

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