A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to take into consideration the public interest in the freedom of movement of surface land transportation when prescribing rules and regulations to govern the opening of drawbridges across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States; to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to assess a civil penalty for any violation of such regulations; and for other purposes.

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Directs the Secretary of Transportation to take into consideration the public interest in the freedom of movement of surface land transportation when prescribing rules and regulations to govern the opening of drawbridges across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States. Authorizes Secretary of Transportation to assess a civil penalty for any violation of such regulations. Provides for a criminal penalty of not more than $2,000, or one year, imprisonment, or both, for a knowing and willful violation of such regulations.

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  summary · EN · 30 May 1973

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