Chapter 264. Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Highways and Public Works of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Clinch River in Hancock County, Tennessee
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CHAP. 264.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Highways and Public Works of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Clinch River in Hancock County, Tennessee.March 2, 1927.[[H. R. 16950](/us/bill/69/hr/16950).][[Public, No. 681](/us/pl/69/681).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the consentClinch River.Tennessee may bridge at Kyles Ford, in Hancock County. of Congress is hereby granted to the department of Highways and Public Works of the State of Tennessee, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Clinch River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation and approximately at Kyles Ford on the Rogersville-Sneedville Road in Hancock County, in the State of Tennessee, inConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84 accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.
Sec. 2. If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the ratesIf tolls are charged, rates applied to maintenance and sinking fund. of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed twenty-five years from the completion thereof.
After a sinking fund sufficient to pay the cost of constructing the bridge and its approaches shall 1272Maintenance as free bridge, etc., subsequently.have been provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of tolls shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper care, repair, maintenance, and operation of the bridge and its approaches. An accurate record of the cost of the Record of cost, expenditures and receipts.bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for operating, repairing, and maintaining the same, and of the daily tolls collected shall be kept, and shall be available for the information of all persons interested.
Sec. 3. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 2, 1927.