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33 U.S.C. § 498b — Repealed. Pub. L. 100–17, title I, § 135(c), Apr. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 174
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Section, act June 27, 1930, ch. 640, § 1, 46 Stat. 821, provided that, in case of any bridge authorized prior to Mar. 23, 1906, by Act of Congress, where Congress has specifically reserved the right to alter, amend, or repeal such Act, regulation of all tolls be subject to sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act June 27, 1930, ch. 640, § 1, 46 Stat. 821, provided that, in case of any bridge authorized prior to Mar. 23, 1906, by Act of Congress, where Congress has specifically reserved the right to alter, amend, or repeal such Act, regulation of all tolls be subject to sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title.
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No bridge erected or maintained under the provisions of sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title, shall at any time unreasonably obstruct the free navigation of the waters over which it is constructed, and if any bridge erected in accordance with the provisions of said sections, shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating at any time unreasonably obstruct such navigation, either on account of insufficient height, width of span, or otherwise, or if there be difficulty in passing the draw opening or the drawspan of such bridge by rafts, steamboats, or other water craft, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating after giving the parties interested reasonable opportunity to be heard, to notify the persons owning or controlling such bridge to so alter the same as to render navigation through or under it reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed, stating in such notice the changes required to be made, and prescribing in each case a reasonable time in which to make such changes, and if at the end of the time so specified the changes so required have not been made, the persons owning or controlling such bridge shall be deemed guilty of a violation of said sections; and all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions shall be removed at the expense of the persons owning or operating said bridge. The persons owning or operating any such bridge shall maintain, at their own expense, such lights and other signals thereon as the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall prescribe. If the bridge shall be constructed with a draw, then the draw shall be opened promptly by the persons owning or operating such bridge upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats and other
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 496
1982—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–322, § 108(c)(1)–(3), des-
ignated existing provisions as subsec. (a), provided for
punishment of persons who shall ‘‘willfully’’ fail to
comply with lawful orders, and struck out ‘‘shall be
deemed guilty of a violation of said sections, and any
persons who shall be guilty of a violation of said sec-
tions’’ before ‘‘shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–322, § 108(c)(4), added subsec.
(b).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of the
Army [formerly War] and other offices and officers of
Department the Army [formerly War] under this sec-
tion to extent that they relate generally to location
and clearances of bridges and causeways in navigable
waters of United States transferred to and vested in
Secretary
of
Transportation
by
Pub.
L.
89–670,
§ 6(g)(6)(B), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 941. Pub. L. 97–449
amended this section to reflect transfer made by sec-
tion 6(g)(6)(B) of Pub. L. 89–670, and repealed section
6(g)(6)(B).
§ 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 commence-
ment and completion of such bridge is named in
said Act, the authority thereby granted shall
cease and be null and void unless the actual con-
struction 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, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)
§ 497. ‘‘Persons’’ defined
The word ‘‘persons’’ as used in sections
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