Amended in Senate April 16, 2015

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 27

Introduced by Senator Huff

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Kim)

March 9, 2015

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 27—Relative to the Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 27, as amended, Huff. Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 91 in the County of Orange as the Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway. 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 costs, to erect those signs.

Fiscal committee: yes.

WHEREAS, Officer Jerry Scott Hatch was a police officer for
the Fullerton Police Department; and

WHEREAS, On Sunday, June 29, 1975, while on his way to
work, Officer Hatch stopped to assist a motorist with an engine
fire on the Beach Boulevard off ramp of State Highway Route 91.
As he was placing his fire extinguisher back in his trunk, Officer
Hatch was struck from behind by a drunk driver. On June 30, 1975,
Officer Hatch succumbed to his injuries; and

WHEREAS, Officer Hatch was the first Fullerton police officer
to be killed in the line of duty; and

WHEREAS, Fellow officers say that Officer Hatch’s good
samaritan act was typical for him; and

WHEREAS, Officer Hatch was described as an officer who
always had a smile and who had received two citizen citations in
the short six months he was on the force; and

WHEREAS, Officer Hatch left behind his parents, Paul and
Dorothy Hatch, his wife, Ruth, and his daughter, Audrey, who was
only two years begin delete old end delete begin insert of age end insert at the time of his death; and

WHEREAS, It is appropriate to memorialize the service and
sacrifice of Officer begin delete Hatch, end delete begin insert Hatch end insert by designating a portion of State
Highway Route 91 in the County of Orange in his honor; now,
therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 91 between State begin delete Highway Route
57 end delete begin insert College Boulevard end insert and begin delete State Highway Route 39 (Beach
Boulevard) end delete begin insert Magnolia Avenue end insert in the County of Orange as the
Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway; 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.