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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters

§ 498. Reservation of right to alter or repeal

Statutory text

The right to alter, amend, or repeal sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title, is expressly reserved as to any and all bridges which may be built in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and the United States shall incur no liability for the alteration, amendment, or repeal thereof to the owner or owners or any other persons interested in any bridge which shall have been constructed in accordance with its provisions.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 59–1130 § 8 · 34 Stat. 84

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 498

    (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 8, 34 Stat. 86.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 8, 34 Stat. 86.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. Amendment, etc. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved as to any and all bridges which may be built in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the United States shall incur no liability for the alteration, amendment, or repeal thereof to the owner or owners or any other persons interested in any bridge which shall have been constructed in accordance with its provisions.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 8, 34 Stat. 86.)

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