In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of United States route number thirty-three, commencing at the interchange of that route and John Lloyd Evans Memorial drive and proceeding in a southerly direction to the interchange of that route and Happy Hollow road, located within Hocking county and Athens county, shall be known as the “State Senator C. Stanley Mechem Memorial Highway.”

The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.