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[CITE: 43USC913]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
         CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
 
Sec. 913. Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of 
        rights of way to State, county, or municipality
        
    All railroad companies to which grants for rights of way through the 
public lands have been made by Congress, or their successors in interest 
or assigns, are authorized to convey to any State, county, or 
municipality any portion of such right of way to be used as a public 
highway or street: Provided, That no such conveyance shall have the 
effect to diminish the right of way of such railroad company to a less 
width than 50 feet on each side of the center of the main track of the 
railroad as now established and maintained.

(May 25, 1920, ch. 197, 41 Stat. 621.)


                            Cross References

    Consent of United States given to any railroad company to convey to 
highway department of any State any part of its right-of-way, see 
section 316 of Title 23, Highways.
