Volume 49 · 1914
Public Law 74–765
Granting the consent of Congress to the city and county of San Francisco to construct a causeway and highways on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, and for other purposes.
Approved June 24, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Granting the consent of Congress to the city and county of San Francisco to construct a causeway and highways on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent
San Francisco, Calif.
Construction, etc., of causeway, highways, etc., on Yerba Buena Island, authorised.
of Congress is hereby given to the construction and maintenance by the city and county of San Francisco, California, of (1) a cause-way between Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay and a public airport to be constructed by said city and county on lands reclaimed in said bay; (2) roads or highways on said Yerba Buena Island connecting such causeway with the State highway on said island provided by the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge crossing;
Reservoirs and pipe lines.
(3) such fresh-water supply reservoirs, tanks, conduits, and pipe lines as may be necessary or proper to enable said city and county to supply said Yerba Buena Island and said public airport with an adequate supply of fresh water; and (4) all usual, necessary, and reasonable incidents and appurtenances to such causeway, roads,
Permits.
highways, reservoirs, tanks, conduits, and pipe lines. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to grant permits for such construction and maintenance, together with all usual, necessary, and
Perpetual easements for rights-of-way.
reasonable incidents and appurtenances thereto, and to grant to said city and county perpetual easements for rights-of-way therefor, subject to such restrictions as he may in his discretion prescribe to avoid injury to the military, naval, or defense uses of said island
Provisos.
Toll restriction.
and inconvenience to the military or naval forces thereon: Provided, That said causeway and any such connecting roads and highways hereby authorized shall be forever toll free: And provided further,
Approval of location, plans, etc.
That the location and plans of such causeway, roads, highways, reservoirs, tanks, conduits, and pipe lines, with the incidents and appurtenances thereto, shall be first approved by the Secretary of the
Tolls on connecting roads.
Navy: And provided further, That nothing in this resolution or consent shall preclude the erection and maintenance of tollgates and tollhouses upon any of said roads or highways connecting said cause-way with said San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge crossing for the purpose of collecting tolls for the use of such bridge.
Approved, June 24, 1936.