33 U.S.C. § 498 — Reservation of right to alter or repeal

submitted 120 years ago by ch. 1130 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 77 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress keeps the right to change or cancel the bridge-building rules in sections 491–498. This applies to any bridge built under those rules. The United States owes no compensation to bridge owners if it changes or repeals them.

This section is one undivided provision. Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title. This reserved right covers every bridge built under those sections. If Congress changes or repeals those sections, the United States owes no liability to the bridge's owner or owners, or to any other person with an interest in the bridge, for that change.

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The right to alter, amend, or repeal sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title, is expressly reserved as to any and all bridges which may be built in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and the United States shall incur no liability for the alteration, amendment, or repeal thereof to the owner or owners or any other persons interested in any bridge which shall have been constructed in accordance with its provisions.

Source credit: (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 8, 34 Stat. 86.)

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1906Enacted · Act of Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130 · 34 Stat. 86

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