HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 127

(By Delegates Eldridge, Rodighiero, R. Phillips and Moffatt)

Requesting the Division of Highways rename the section of U.S. Route 119 that runs through Lincoln County the "Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway."

            Whereas, House Concurrent Resolution No. 10 passed during the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature naming the section of U.S. Route 119 that runs through Lincoln County the "Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway". Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson was a member of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department when he was killed in the line of duty on June 19, 2007. It would be fitting to add to the signs identifying the section of U.S. Route 119 that runs through Lincoln County "Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway"; therefore, be it

            Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways to rename the section of U.S. Route 119 that runs through Lincoln County as "Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway," language that Sgt. Thompson was a Deputy Sheriff in Lincoln County such as "Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway" ; and, be it

            Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the section of U.S. Route 119 that runs through Lincoln County "Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson Memorial Highway"; and, be it

            Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and the family of Sgt. Justin Alan Thompson.