FEDERAL · 43 U.S.C. · Chapter 21

Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality

43 U.S.C. § 913
Title43Public Lands
Chapter21 — GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS

This text of 43 U.S.C. § 913 (Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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43 U.S.C. § 913.

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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.

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History

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

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