Chapter 238. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of California to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco by way of Goat Island to Oakland
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CHAP. 238.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of California to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco by way of Goat Island to Oakland. February 20, 1931.[[S. 5825](/us/bill/71/s/5825).][[Public, No. 695](/us/pl/71/695).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Bay of San Francisco.California may bridge, between San Francisco and Oakland.
That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State of California to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Bay of San Francisco, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the general site from Rincon Hill, in the city and Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.county of San Francisco, to and across Goat Island, in San Francisco Bay, thence to Oakland, in the county of Alameda, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 11931906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act: *Provided*, That permission for such bridge to cross the Government *Provisos*.Permission required to cross Government reservation.Damage to Government property to be repaired.reservation on Goat Island shall first be obtained from the Secretaries of War, Navy, and Commerce: *Provided further*, That if any buildings, improvements, or facilities on such Government reservations are damaged or destroyed by the construction of said bridge they shall be repaired or replaced by the State of California on a site or sites acceptable to the respective head of the department having jurisdiction over the property involved.
Sec. 2. If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates Tolls adjusted to provide for maintenance, operation, etc.of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches, including reasonable interest and financing cost, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed forty years from the completion thereof.
After a Maintenance as free bridge, etc., after costs amortized.sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls or the rates of toll shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of the bridge and its approaches under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of Record of expenditures and receipts.the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, and of the daily tolls collected, shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested.
Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment.expressly reserved, and the United States shall incur no liability of any kind whatsoever for the alteration, amendment, or repeal thereof. Approved, February 20, 1931.