Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§496 Time for Commencement and Completion of Bridge
Title 33 › Chapter 11— BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS › Subchapter I— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 496
Summary
When Congress, after March 23, 1906, allows a bridge to be built over U.S. navigable waters and the law does not set deadlines, the permission ends unless actual building starts within one year and the bridge is finished within three years from the law's passage.
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Title 33, §496
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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.
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33 U.S.C. § 496
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60