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[CITE: 33USC492]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                CHAPTER 11--BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 492. Bridge as post route; limitation as to charges against 
        Government; telegraph and telephone lines
        
    Any bridge built in accordance with the provisions of sections 491 
to 498 of this title, shall be a lawful structure and shall be 
recognized and known as a post route, upon which no higher charge shall 
be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and 
the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid 
for the transportation over any railroad, street railway, or public 
highway leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the 
right to construct, maintain, and repair, without any charge therefor, 
telegraph and telephone lines across and upon said bridge and its 
approaches; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge and its 
approaches shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies.

(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, Sec. 2, 34 Stat. 85.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 491, 493, 494, 495, 497, 
498, 508, 530, 535 of this title.
