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Public Law 84–93

To amend the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1096), to provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California.

Approved June 22, 1955

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1096), to provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1096), to provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California, is amended by the repeal of sections 3, 4, and 5 thereof, and the substitution of the following:

“Sec. 3.

The conveyance authorized herein shall include all right,

Water and gas mains.

and title of the Secretary of Commerce in and to that certain personalty now installed within the bed of the said Central Drive, to wit: Approximately three thousand seven hundred feet of twelve-inch steel pipe, being a water main: and approximately five thousand and ninety feet of six-inch steel pipe, being a gas main. The city of Richmond may transfer or convey or otherwise dispose of the right, title, and interest in and to the aforesaid personalty, or permit the use thereof to others, whether by deed, lease, permit or otherwise, and grant as well a perpetual easement, any other provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, over the lands the conveyance of which is authorized in section 1 hereof, so as to permit the replacement, maintenance, operation, renewal, and repair of said personalty: Provided, That as long as the property presently occupied by the said Maritime-Richmond Yard Numbered 3 is held by the United States, the city of Richmond shall bind itself, its successors and assigns, its lessees and permittees to provide service through said water main and gas main or through any replacement or relocation thereof to said Maritime-Richmond Yard Numbered 3 as is required of water and gas utilities under the laws of the State of California.

“Sec. 4.

In consideration of the conveyance authorized in section

Highway maintenance, etc.

1 hereof, and in addition to the conditions set forth in section 2 hereof, the city of Richmond will at all times maintain the said public highway to provide and permit perpetual access to the said Maritime-Richmond Yard Numbered 3 via said highway for all purposes, and will bind itself and its successors, assigns, lessees, or permittees, as the case may be, to any of the said pipes and pipelines, to provide and permit such service of water and gas as is required of water and gas utilities under the laws of the State of California through said pipes and pipelines or through any replacement or relocation thereof to said yard, as long as the property presently occupied by said yard is held by the United States.”

Approved June 22, 1955.

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