Volume 72
Public Law 85–607
To revise the authorization with respect to the charging of tolls on the bridge across the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
Approved August 8, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To revise the authorization with respect to the charging of tolls on the bridge across the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding
Bridge.
Jefferson, Barracks, Mo.
any provision to the contrary contained in the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the county of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri”, approved August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1257), authority is hereby granted to the county of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, to fix and charge tolls, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. for transit over the bridge constructed pursuant to such Act of August 7, 1939 (hereinafter referred to as the “Jefferson Barracks Bridge”).
Sec. 2.
The rates of the tolls authorized by the first section of this
Use of tolls.
Act shall be so adjusted that the amounts collected from the tolls on the Jefferson Barracks Bridge together with the amounts collected from the tolls imposed on not more than one additional bridge hereafter to be constructed by such county adjacent to the Jefferson Barracks Bridge and across the Mississippi River, will provide (1) a fund sufficient to pay the cost of the maintenance and operation of both such bridges, and (2) a sinking fund sufficient to amortize (a) any unamortized cost of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge and approaches thereto and the cost of any reconstruction or improving of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, (b) the cost of constructing such additional bridge and the approaches thereto, and (c) interest and financing costs, within a period of not more than thirty years after the date such reconstruction and improvement, or construction, is commenced, whichever first occurs. After there has been collected from such tolls an amount sufficient to provide such funds, both such bridges shall be maintained and operated free of tolls.
Sec. 3.
The reconstruction or improvement of the Jefferson Barracks
Commencement and completion date.
Bridge and construction of the additional bridge and approaches pursuant to section 2 of this Act shall be commenced not later than July 1, 1960, and shall be completed within three years after such date.
Approved August 8, 1958.