Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters
§ 496. Time for commencement and completion of bridge
Statutory text
Whenever Congress shall after , by law authorize the construction of any bridge over or across any of the navigable waters of the United States, and no time for the commencement and completion of such bridge is named in said Act, the authority thereby granted shall cease and be null and void unless the actual construction of the bridge authorized in such Act be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of the passage of such Act.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 59–1130 § 6 · 34 Stat. 84
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 496
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. Time of construction. That whenever Congress shall hereafter by law authorize the construction of any bridge over or across any of the navigable waters of the United States, and no time for the commencement and completion of such bridge is named in said Act, the authority thereby granted shall cease and be null and void unless the actual construction of the bridge authorized in such Act be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of the passage of such Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)