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43 USC § 935 - Several roads through canyons

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s935"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 935 - Several roads through canyons"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "935"
section_name: "Several roads through canyons"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 152, § 2, 18 Stat. 482.)"
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# § 935. Several roads through canyons

March 3, 1875*Provided*

Any railroad company whose right of way, or whose track or roadbed upon such right of way, passes through any canyon, pass, or defile, shall not prevent any other railroad company from the use and occupancy of the said canyon, pass, or defile, for the purposes of its road, in common with the road first located, on the crossing of other railroads at grade. And the location of such right of way through any canyon, pass, or defile shall not cause the disuse of any wagon or other public highway located therein on , nor prevent the location through the same of any such wagon road or highway where such road or highway may be necessary for the public accommodation; and where any change in the location of such wagon road is necessary to permit the passage of such railroad through any canyon, pass, or defile, said railroad company shall before entering upon the ground occupied by such wagon road, cause the same to be reconstructed at its own expense in the most favorable location, and in as perfect a manner as the original road: , That such expenses shall be equitably divided between any number of railroad companies occupying and using the same canyon, pass, or defile.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 152, § 2, 18 Stat. 482.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by , , , effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see , set out as a note under .