Volume 76 · 154
Public Law 87–532
To authorize the San Benito International Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Los Indios, Texas, and to authorize the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas.
Approved July 10, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the San Benito International Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Los Indios, Texas, and to authorize the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
the San
Toll bridges, construction.
Los Indios; Rio Grande. Tex.
Benito International Bridge Company of San Benito, Texas, is authorized to construct a toll bridge and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Los Indios, Texas, and for a period of sixty-six years from the date of completion of such bridge, to maintain and operate such bridge and to collect tolls for the use thereof, so far as the United States has jurisdiction over the waters of such river; and (2) the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company of the State of Texas is authorized to construct a toll bridge and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for a period of sixty-six years from the date of completion of such bridge, to maintain and operate such bridge and to collect tolls for the use thereof, so far as the United States has jurisdiction over the waters of such river.
In the case of each such bridge, the construction, maintenance, and operation authorized by this Act shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters”, approved March 23, 1906 (33 U.S.C.
491 to 498, inclusive/, and shall be subject to (1) the conditions and limitations contained in this Act, (2) the approval of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, and (3) the approval of the proper authorities in the Republic of Mexico.
Sec. 2.
Each of the companies referred to in the first section of this Act may fix and charge tolls for transit over the bridge which it is authorized under such section to construct, in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, and the laws of the United States, applicable to such tolls, and the rates of toll so fixed shall be the legal rates until changed under the authority contained in section 4 of the Act of March 23, 1906 (33 U.S.C 494).
Sec. 3.
Each such company may sell, assign, transfer, or mortgage the rights, powers, and privileges conferred on it by this Act, to any public agency, or to an international bridge authority or commission, and any such agency, authority, or commission is authorized to exercise the rights, powers, and privileges acquired under this section (including acquisition by mortgage foreclosure) in the same manner as if such rights, powers, and privileges had been granted by this Act directly to such agency, authority, or commission.
Sec. 4.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of March 23, 1906 (33 U.S.C. 496), this Act shall be null and void as to any bridge authorized to be constructed by this Act unless the actual construction of such bridge is commenced within three years and completed within five years from the date of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 5.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly reserved.
Approved July 10, 1962.