33 USC § 496 - Time for commencement and completion of bridge
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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s496"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 496 - Time for commencement and completion of bridge"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "496"
section_name: "Time for commencement and completion of bridge"
chapter_number: 11
chapter_name: "BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)"
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# § 496. Time for commencement and completion of bridge
March 23, 1906
Whenever Congress shall after , 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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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 6, 34 Stat. 86.)