Volume 49 · 670
Public Law 74–596
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction and operation of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania”, approved June 4, 1934.
Approved August 21, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction and operation of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania”, approved June 4, 1934.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That clause (c) of section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction and operation of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania”, approved June 4, 1934, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
“(c) Across the Monongahela River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, between the Smithfield Street and Point Bridges.”
Sec. 2.
Section 2 of said Act is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 2.
If tolls are charged for the use of said bridges, or any of them, the rates of toll may be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay such part or all of any one or more of the following items as shall not be from time to time otherwise provided for,
Cost of maintenance, etc.
namely: (a) The reasonable cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of said bridges, approaches, and such other public works and improvements as may be associated with said bridges and approaches or any of them in any loan agreement heretofore entered into, or hereafter to be entered into between the United States of America and said Allegheny County Authority or said county of Allegheny;
Amortization of loans, etc.
and (b) the amortization, within a reasonable time and under reasonable conditions of any loan or loans, including reasonable interest, taxes, and financing charges, made or to be made in connection with the construction of said bridges, approaches, and other such associated public works and improvements.”
Sec. 3.
Section 3 of said Act is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 3.
An accurate record of the cost of said bridges, approaches, and associated public works and improvements and of all expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same and of tolls collected from time to time shall be kept and shall at all reasonable times be available for the information of all persons interested in the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof.”
Sec. 4.
Said Act is further amended by adding a new section, to be known as “section 4”, reading as follows:
“Sec. 4.
The times for commencing and completing said bridges and each of them and the approaches of each of them is hereby extended for periods of one and three years, respectively, from June 4, 1935.”
Sec. 5.
Said Act is further amended by renumbering section 4 thereof as section 5 and section 5 thereof as section 6.
Sec. 6.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, August 21, 1935.