Section 5. Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris, a native of Adamsville, Crawford County, enlisted in the United States Army in 1984 after graduation from Conneaut Lake High School.
(2) Over a period of nearly 20 years, Staff Sergeant Mowris honorably served his country on active duty with the United States Army and with the Army Reserve.
(3) Staff Sergeant Mowris served in operations in locations across the globe, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Honduras, El Salvador, Kosovo, Cuba and Afghanistan.
(4) The distinguished military career of Staff Sergeant Mowris ended on January 29, 2004, when he was killed along with seven other soldiers in an explosion during the clearing of an enemy weapons and ammunition cache in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 18 in West Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, from the intersection with State Route 322 to the Crawford/Mercer County Line is designated as the Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris Memorial Highway.
(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.