BILL NUMBER: S7189A
SPONSOR: RHOADS
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to dedicating a portion of
the state highway system to "Port Authority police officer Frederick G.
Maley"
 
PURPOSE:
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Port Authority
police officer Frederick G. Maley memorial highway.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 344-r to
read as follows:
§ 344-r. Portion of the state highway system to be dedicated to "Port
Authority police officer Frederick G. Maley." All that portion of the
state highway system constituting Newbridge Road from its intersection
with North Jerusalem Road to its intersection with East Meadow Ave with-
in the hamlet of North Bellmore, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau,
shall be dedicated to "Port Authority police officer Frederick G.
Maley."
§ 2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the installa-
tion and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system as
designated pursuant to section 1 of this act.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Police officer Frederick Maley was assigned watch at LaGuardia Airport.
He was appointed to the Port Authority Police Department on October 9,
1984. He died on July 17, 2022, as the result of cancer that he devel-
oped following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the
World Trade Cetner site following the 9/11 Terrorists Attacks.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.