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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§1003 Authorization for Free Travel on Golden Gate Bridge; Issuance, Presentation, and Acceptance; Other Authorization Devices

Title 15 › Chapter 19— MISCELLANEOUS › § 1003

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

People allowed to cross the Golden Gate Bridge for free must show and give an authorization at the toll lanes. Those authorizations will be issued and signed by military or naval officers chosen by the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Navy under rules they set. The list of those officers and their signatures will be given to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, which will accept those authorizations as proof. The District can also accept other ways of proving the right to cross free, and the Secretaries and the District may make agreements to set up and run those methods.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §1003

Commerce and Trade — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The use of the Golden Gate Bridge free of toll, provided for in section 1002 of this title, shall be granted upon the presentation and surrender at the toll lanes of an authorization certifying that the traffic in question is entitled to such right. Such authorization shall be issued and signed by any military or naval officer designated for such purpose in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively. The names and signatures of officers so designated shall be furnished to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and thereafter authorizations signed by them shall be accepted by such bridge and highway district as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), such right to use the Golden Gate Bridge free of toll may be established by any other device or means which may be acceptable to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District; and the Secretary of the Army and the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and the Secretary of the Navy and the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, may enter into any appropriate agreements to secure the effective, convenient, and just exercise of such right.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3011 to 3013 continued the military Department of the Army under the administrative supervision of a Secretary of the Army.

Executive Documents

Secretary of the Air Force For transfer of certain functions relating to finance and fiscal matters, insofar as they pertain to Secretary of the Air Force, from Secretary of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 25, Oct. 14, 1948, and 40 [App. B(61)], July 22, 1949.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

15 U.S.C. § 1003

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60