An act to create and enact a new section to chapter 24-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to designating state highway 200 as the North Dakota fallen peace officers memorial highway; and to provide a continuin, the official text

Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
SENATE BILL NO. 2277 (Senators Boehm, Hogue, Larson) (Representatives Heinert, Lefor, Tveit)
AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 24-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to designating state highway 200 as the North Dakota fallen peace officers memorial highway; and to provide a continuing appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 24-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and
enacted as follows: North Dakota fallen peace officers memorial highway - State highway 200 - Continuing
appropriation. 1. The department shall designate state highway 200 from the Minnesota border to the Montana border as the North Dakota fallen peace officers memorial highway and shall place signs along the highway designating that name. 2. The department shall consult with the family and associates of North Dakota peace officers and law enforcement officers, and handlers and owners of canine officers, killed in the line of duty, to designate up to one mile of state highway 200 to memorialize an individual peace officer, law enforcement officer, or canine officer. 3. The department may accept any appropriate signs or funds donated to the department for the placement of signs. Any donated funds are appropriated to the department on a continuing basis for the purpose of providing signs designating state highway 200 as the North Dakota fallen peace officers memorial highway.

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____________________________ President of the Senate

____________________________ Speaker of the House

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2277.

Senate Vote: House Vote:

Yeas 44 Yeas 93

Nays 0 Nays 0

Absent 3 Absent 1

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.

____________________________ Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M.

____________________________ Secretary of State