§ 513. — Notice, hearings, and findings.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC513]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 11--BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS
SUBCHAPTER II--ALTERATION OF BRIDGES
Sec. 513. Notice, hearings, and findings
Whenever any bridge shall, in the opinion of the Secretary, at any
time unreasonably obstruct such navigation, it shall be the duty of the
Secretary, after notice to interested parties, to hold a hearing at
which the bridge owner, those interested in water navigation thereunder
or therethrough, those interested in either railroad or highway traffic
thereover, and any other party or parties in interest shall have full
opportunity to offer evidence and be heard as to whether any alteration
of such bridge is needed, and if so what alterations are needed, having
due regard to the necessity of free and unobstructed water navigation
and to the necessities of the rail or highway traffic. If, upon such
hearing, the Secretary determines that any alterations of such bridge
are necessary in order to render navigation through or under it
reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed, having due regard also for the
necessities of rail or highway traffic thereover, he shall so find and
shall issue and cause to be served upon interested parties an order
requiring such alterations of such bridge as he finds to be reasonably
necessary for the purposes of navigation.
(June 21, 1940, ch. 409, Sec. 3, 54 Stat. 498.)
