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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102

§1005 San Francisco-oakland Bay Bridge Tolls; Government Traffic and Personnel on Official Business Exempted; Government Personnel on Yerba Buena Island or Treasure Island Exempted

Title 15 › CHAPTER 19 — MISCELLANEOUS › § 1005

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Government vehicles and government personnel (including military, Coast Guard, and civilian employees) and their dependents may be charged tolls to cross the San Francisco‑Oakland Bay Bridge, but any toll cannot be higher than the toll for similar non‑government traffic. As allowed by section 1006 of this title, when military, Coast Guard, or naval members, civilian Army/Navy/Coast Guard employees, and National Ocean Survey staff are on official duty that requires the bridge, they and the vehicles they use cross free. Also, as allowed by section 1006, those people and their dependents who live or work on Yerba Buena Island or Treasure Island, or are on a vessel docked there, and their vehicles, get free passage to and from those islands.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §1005

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Tolls may be charged for the passage or transit over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge of Government traffic, or military, naval, or civilian personnel and their dependents, and of civilian employees of the Army and Navy traveling on Government business, but such tolls shall not be in excess of the tolls charged for the passage or transit of other like traffic over such bridge: Provided, however, That subject to the provisions of section 1006 of this title, military, Coast Guard, and naval personnel, and civilian employees of the Army and Navy and Coast Guard and personnel and employees of the National Ocean Survey, when such personnel or employees are engaged in the performance of official duties requiring the use of such bridge, together with the conveyances being used by them in the performance of such duties, shall have the use of such bridge free of toll: Provided further, That subject to the provisions of section 1006 of this title, military, Coast Guard, and naval personnel, civilian employees of the Army and Navy and Coast Guard and personnel and employees of the National Ocean Survey, and their dependents, when such personnel, employees, or dependents are resident or employed on Yerba Buena Island or Treasure Island, or on any vessel berthed at any point on said islands, together with the conveyances being used by them, when proceeding to or from said islands, shall have the use of such bridge free of toll.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

section 4 of act
July 1, 1946, provided that sections 1005 to 1007 of this title shall be effective thirty days after
July 1, 1946.

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau of Department of Commerce to form new agency in Department of Commerce known as Environmental Science Services Administration and offices of Director and Deputy Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. All functions of Survey, Director of Survey, and officers, employees, and organizational entities of Survey transferred to Secretary of Commerce and all personnel (including commissioned officers) and property of Survey, not already transferred by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 5, deemed transferred to Administration. Subsequently, Environmental Science Services Administration abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to title 5, which created National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce. By order of Acting Associate Administrator of NOAA, organization name of Coast and Geodetic Survey changed to National Ocean Survey.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 1005

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102