§ 496. — Time for commencement and completion of bridge.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC496]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 11--BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 496. Time for commencement and completion of bridge
Whenever Congress shall after March 23, 1906, 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.
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, Sec. 6, 34 Stat. 86.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 491, 492, 493, 494, 495,
497, 498, 508, 530, 535 of this title.
