§ 1003. — Authorization for free travel on Golden Gate Bridge; issuance, presentation, and acceptance; other authorization devices.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC1003]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 19--MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 1003. Authorization for free travel on Golden Gate Bridge;
issuance, presentation, and acceptance; other authorization
devices
(a) The use of the Golden Gate Bridge free of toll, provided for in
section 1002 of this title, shall be granted upon the presentation and
surrender at the toll lanes of an authorization certifying that the
traffic in question is entitled to such right. Such authorization shall
be issued and signed by any military or naval officer designated for
such purpose in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively.
The names and signatures of officers so designated shall be furnished to
the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and thereafter
authorizations signed by them shall be accepted by such bridge and
highway district as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this
section, such right to use the Golden Gate Bridge free of toll may be
established by any other device or means which may be acceptable to the
Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District; and the Secretary of the Army
and the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, and the Secretary of
the Navy and the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, may enter into
any appropriate agreements to secure the effective, convenient, and just
exercise of such right.
(Mar. 14, 1944, ch. 92, Sec. 2, 58 Stat. 116.)
Codification
The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and
the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army
by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501.
Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act
Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956,
enacted ``Title 10, Armed Forces'' which in sections 3011 to 3013
continued the military Department of the Army under the administrative
supervision of a Secretary of the Army.
Secretary of the Air Force
For transfer of certain functions relating to finance and fiscal
matters, insofar as they pertain to Secretary of the Air Force, from
Secretary of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force, see Secretary of
Defense Transfer Order Nos. 25, Oct. 14, 1948, and 40 [App. B(61)], July
22, 1949.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1002, 1004 of this title.
