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          Date of Hearing:   September 11, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          SCR  
          51 (Stone) - As Introduced April 30, 2015


          SENATE VOTE:  38-0


          SUBJECT:  Special Deputy Frank Hamilton Memorial Highway.


          SUMMARY:  Designates a portion of State Highway Route (SR) 371  
          in Riverside County as the "Special Deputy Frank Hamilton  
          Memorial Highway."  Specifically, this resolution:  


          1)Recounts the life and accomplishments of Frank Hamilton, a  
            special deputy sheriff in Riverside County.


          2)Designates the portion of SR 371 between Howard Road and  
            Tribal Road near the community of Anza in Los Angeles County  
            as the "Special Deputy Frank Hamilton Memorial Highway."


          3)Requests that the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent  
            with the signing requirements for the state highway system,  
            showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations  
            from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those  
            signs.








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          EXISTING LAW:  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This includes the installation  
          and maintenance of highway signs.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans  
          only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from  
          non-state sources covering the cost.


          COMMENTS:  Frank Hamilton, a Cahuilla tribal member from the  
          Anza area, served as special deputy in the Riverside County  
          Sheriff's Office in the areas surrounding the Cahuilla and  
          Ramona Reservations and San Jacinto in the 1890s.  After  
          Riverside County's incorporation in 1893, Special Deputy  
          Hamilton was the first deputy sheriff in Riverside County to be  
          killed in the line of duty after sustaining gunshot injuries  
          following a disagreement with a San Jacinto saloon patron and  
          succumbing to his wounds the next day on April 9, 1895, at the  
          age of 34.  His killing became the subject of the first murder  
          trial held in Riverside County.  This resolution designating a  
          portion of SR 371 in his honor acknowledges the contributions  
          Special Deputy Hamilton made to his community and the history of  
          Riverside County.


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          None on file











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          Opposition


          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Justin Behrens / TRANS. / (916)  
          319-2093