In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the highway known as interstate route number seventy-one, commencing at the southwest boundary of Ashland county and proceeding in a southwesterly direction to the interchange of that interstate highway and state route number thirty-nine in Richland county shall be known as the "Lt. Col. Albert L. Allen, Jr., Memorial Highway."
The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.