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[CITE: 33USC496]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                CHAPTER 11--BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 496. Time for commencement and completion of bridge

    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.

(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, Sec. 6, 34 Stat. 86.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 
497, 498, 508, 530, 535 of this title.
