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Missouri River Toll Bridge Compact
| Missouri River Toll Bridge Compact | |
| Formation date: | 1933 |
| Member jurisdictions: | 2 |
| Issue(s): | Infrastructure |
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The Missouri River Toll Bridge Compact was an interstate compact between Kansas and Missouri. The compact was created to allow for the creation of a toll bridge between the member states that would span the Missouri River. This compact also had congressional consent.[1]
Kansas repealed the law in 2013, which ended the compact.[2]
Text of the compact
The legislature of each member state passed the laws with certain modifications, but the core of the legislation remained the same. The text below was from the compact passed by Kansas.[3]
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68-1601. Toll bridge across Missouri river. Regional bridge company, its successors and assigns, shall be and it is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate such bridge across the Missouri river from a point at or near Kansas City, in Wyandotte county, Kansas, to a point in Platte county, Missouri, according to plans approved by the war department of the United States; and the said states hereby authorize regional bridge company to enter upon and use for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating such bridge all necessary lands under water belonging to the said states, and the fee to any lands so used shall upon such use be vested in such regional bridge company.[4] |
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See also
External links
- The Council of State Governments - National Center for Interstate Compacts
- Missouri River Toll Bridge Compact
Footnotes
- ↑ National Center for Interstate Compacts, "Missouri River Toll Bridge Compact," accessed February 5, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes, "68-1601," accessed February 17, 2021
- ↑ Kansas Legislature, "Article 16. - Interstate Bridges - 68-1601," accessed February 17, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
