Public Law 83–154

That section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State of California to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco by way of Goat Island to Oakland”, approved February 20, 1931, is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 2.

(a)(a)

The State of California is hereby authorized to fix,

Tolls.

charge, and collect tolls for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this Act, at rates so adjusted as (1) to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating such bridge and its approaches under economical management, (2) to pay the costs of such bridge and its approaches (including reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and (3) to repay all sums advanced and required to be repaid under the laws of the State of California heretofore enacted.

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“(b)“(b)

The State of California is authorized to fix, charge, and collect tolls for the use of such bridge to pay the costs of engineering, Planning, constructing, reconstructing, making alterations, additions, betterments, improvements, and extensions (including reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and the costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating of not to exceed two additional highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco and their approaches. The State of California is also authorized to fix, charge,

Highway crossings.

and collect tolls for the use of such additional highway crossing or crossings. After a fund shall have been provided from the tolls collected for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this Act and from tolls charged for the use of such additional highway crossing or crossings, sufficient to pay all costs referred to in clauses (2) and (3) of subsection (a) and also all costs of such additional highway crossing or crossings and their approaches (including the costs of all reconstruction, alterations, additions, betterments, improvements, and extensions thereof and all interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), such bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings shall thereafter he maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be adjusted so as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of such bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings, and their approaches, under economical management. An accurate record of

Record.

the costs of such bridge and such highway crossing or crossings, and their approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same and of the daily tolls collected, shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested.”

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