Volume 76
Public Law 87–644
To amend the Acts of May 21, 1926, and January 25, 1927, relating to the construction of certain bridges across the Delaware River, so as to authorize the use of certain funds acquired by the owners of such bridges for purposes not directly related to the maintenance and operation of such bridges and their approaches.
Approved September 7, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Acts of May 21, 1926, and January 25, 1927, relating to the construction of certain bridges across the Delaware River, so as to authorize the use of certain funds acquired by the owners of such bridges for purposes not directly related to the maintenance and operation of such bridges and their approaches.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River at or near Burlington, New Jersey”, approved May 21, 1926 (44 Stat. 588), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 9.
Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to prohibit, or shall prohibit any public agency, which now or hereafter may own such bridge and its approaches, and which has paid the principal and interest on all its outstanding indebtedness and has on hand capital funds derived from sources other than toll revenues in excess of the amount determined by said public agencies, to be required for the maintenance, repair, operation, reconstruction, replacement and modernization and improvement of such bridge and its approaches, from paying such surplus, or any part thereof, to the county of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, for its use in the acquisition, construction, improvement, or enlargement of said county’s facilities, buildings, and roads.”
Sec. 2.
The Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River at Palmyra, New Jersey”, approved January 25, 1927 (44 Stat. 1024), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 9.
Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to prohibit, or shall prohibit any public agency, which now or hereafter may own such bridge and its approaches, and which has paid the principal and interest on all its outstanding indebtedness and has on hand capital funds derived from sources other than toll revenues in excess of the amount determined by said public agencies, to be required for the maintenance, repair, operation, reconstruction, replacement and modernization and improvement of such bridge and its approaches, from paying such surplus, or any part thereof, to the county of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, for its use in the acquisition, construction, improvement, or enlargement of said county’s facilities, buildings, and roads.”
Approved September 7, 1962.