Volume 48 · 1006
Public Law 73–593
Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Approved June 18, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent
Susquehanna River.
Pennsylvania may bridge, at Middletown.
of Congress is hereby granted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting through its Department of Highways, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge and approaches thereto across the Susquehanna River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Middletown, Dauphin County, and between Middletown, Dauphin County, and Goldsboro, York County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the Act
Constructions.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.
Sec. 2.
If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches, including reasonable interest and financing cost, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed twenty years from the completion thereof. After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so
Maintenance as free bridge, after amortizing costs.
provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be so adjusted to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of the bridge and its approaches under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, and the daily tolls collected, shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, June 18, 1934.