Pennsylvania Act 2016-83 — PRIVATE FIRST CLASS NILS G. THOMPSON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY - DESIGNATION

Act text

An Act

Designating a portion of State Route 523 in Somerset County as the Private First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial Highway.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Private First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial Highway.

(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:

(1) Private First Class (PFC) Nils G. Thompson of Confluence, Somerset County, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

(2) PFC Thompson was shot and killed on August 4, 2005, by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, one day after his 19th birthday.

(b) Designation.--A portion of State Route 523, also known as Listonburg Road, in the Borough of Confluence, Somerset County, from the northbound intersection of U.S. Route 40 to southbound mile marker 110, is hereby designated the Private First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial Highway.

(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the road to traffic in both directions on the road.

Section 2. Effective date.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.