AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE PURPLE HEART HIGHWAY IN WORCESTER COUNTY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 180 of the acts of 1961 is hereby amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the following text:-
State highway route 146 shall be designated and known as the Purple Heart Highway in recognition and honor of the men and women wounded or killed in the line of their military duty. The department of highways shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing this designation. In addition, that portion of state highway route 146 between interstate highway route 290 at Brosnihan square in the city of Worcester and state highway route 146 intersection with Boston road in the town of Sutton shall be named the Blackstone Valley Parkway. The department of highways shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing this name.
SECTION 2. Item 6033-9917 of section 2B of chapter 235 of the acts of 2000 is hereby amended by striking out the words “provided further, that the section of state highway route 146 between interstate highway route 290 at Brosnihan square in Worcester and the state highway route 146 intersection with Boston road in Sutton shall be designated the Blackstone Valley parkway;”.