Section 7. Sergeant George F. Stuckey Memorial Road.
(a) Findings.--
(1) Sergeant George F. Stuckey was born June 29, 1939, in Michigan and came to the Bucks County area when he was a child. He was a graduate of Delhaas High School.
(2) Sergeant Stuckey was a police officer with the Bristol Township Police Department where he served for seven years. He held the rank of detective for five years before becoming acting sergeant in the detective division. He served as the department's photographic expert.
(3) Sergeant Stuckey made the ultimate sacrifice on March 29, 1972, when he was shot and killed in the line of duty while stopping a vehicle involved in a bank robbery along Bath Road in Bristol Township. The shooting occurred only a couple hundred feet from the police headquarters.
(4) Sergeant Stuckey was the first police officer in Bucks County to be killed in the line of duty.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 2029, known as Bath Road, that runs between US Route 13 (Segment 10) to Oxford Valley Road (Segment 40) and the section of State Route 2049, also known as Bath Road, that runs between Oxford Valley Road (Segment 10) to State Route 413 (Segment 40) in Bristol Township, Bucks County, are hereby designated as the Sergeant George F. Stuckey Memorial Road.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to traffic in both directions on the highway.