BILL NUMBER: SCR 114	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  102
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 7, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 23, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 4, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Gaines

                        APRIL 21, 2014

   Relative to the James E. Machado Memorial Intersection.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 114, Gaines. James E. Machado Memorial Intersection.
   This measure would designate the intersection of State Highway
Route 49 and Elm Avenue in the City of Auburn as the James E. Machado
Memorial Intersection. The measure would also request the Department
of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, James E. Machado, a deputy sheriff with four years of
service with the Placer County Sheriff's Department, was shot and
killed on July 13, 1978, with his own service weapon, in a struggle
with an escaped mental patient; and
   WHEREAS, The altercation occurred on the shoulder of the
northbound lanes of State Highway Route 49 at Elm Avenue in the City
of Auburn; and
   WHEREAS, With the help of citizens who witnessed the shooting, the
suspect was quickly located by officers of the California Highway
Patrol and an officer of the Auburn Police Department; and
   WHEREAS, The suspect confronted the responding officers with
Deputy Machado's service weapon, and was subsequently killed when the
officers fired several rounds at the suspect; and
   WHEREAS, Law enforcement officers from throughout the state
attended Deputy Machado's funeral, and he was posthumously awarded
the Placer County Sheriff's Purple Heart; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Machado was survived by his wife Nancy, and three
children, Jim, Joy, and Jeanne't who were 7, 3, and 1 years of age at
the time of this tragic event; and
   WHEREAS, It is therefore appropriate to designate the intersection
of State Highway 49 and Elm Avenue in the City of Auburn in Deputy
Machado's honor and memory; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the intersection of State Highway 49 and Elm
Avenue in the City of Auburn is hereby designated as the James E.
Machado Memorial Intersection; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.