Volume 52 · 763
Public Law 75–481
Authorizing the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America in Congress assembled,
That in order to
Red River.
North Dakota and Minnesota may bridge.
facilitate interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota are authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point in Walsh
Location.
County, North Dakota, at or near the terminus of North Dakota State Highway Numbered 17, such point being located near the dividing line between sections 18 and 19, township 157 north, range 51 west, fourth principal meridian, to a point in Marshall County, Minnesota, located near the dividing line between sections 17 and 20, township 157 north, range 50 west, fourth principal meridian, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act. to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters”, approved
March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained m this Act.
Sec. 2.
There are hereby conferred upon the North Dakota State
Acquisition of real estate, etc.
Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby
Amendment.
expressly reserved.
Approved, June 16, 1938.