An Act authorizing the State of California to collect tolls for the use of certain highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco
PL 83-154 (S.2342), enacted 07/27/1953

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States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall pro-
hibit the continued employment of any person who shall have ren-
dered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the 
Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, 
administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the con-
trolling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, 
training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the 
United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, 
executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms 
of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours 
per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based 
upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States 
plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons 
employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or 
supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any 
branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or 
company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States 
Government: Provided 
further, 
That the President may suspend 
from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section if 
he should deem such course to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 104. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U. S. C. 55a), in an amount not exceeding $15,000: Provided, That 
the rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem. 
SEC. 105. Amounts expended by the Panama Canal Company in 
maintaining defense facilities in standby condition for the Depart-
ment of Defense, and amounts expended by the Canal Zone Govern-
ment in providing school and hospital services for agencies of the 
United States other than the Panama Canal Company and the Canal 
Zone Government hereafter shall, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, be fully reimbursable to the Panama Canal Company or 
to the Canal Zone Government, as the case may be, by such other 
agencies. 
SEC. 106. No part of the funds of the Canal Zone Government or 
the Panama Canal Company shall be used after December 31, 1953, 
for providing free medical and hospital care to employees of the 
Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government. 
SEC. 107. No part of the funds of the Panama Canal Company or 
the Canal Zone Government shall be available hereafter for payment 
of military personnel assigned to the Panama Canal Company or the 
Canal Zone Government in excess of their military pay: 
Provided, 
That this section shall not apply to those officers serving as Governor 
of the Canal Zone and President, Panama Canal Company and as 
Lieutenant Governor of the Canal Zone. 
SEC. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Civil Functions Appro-
priations Act, 1954". 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
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Public Law 154 
CHAPTER 248 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the State of California to collect tolls for the use of certain highway 
crossings across the Bay of San Francisco. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
olkfand^brid^^ United States of A^merica in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the 
^46"stat 1193. ' ^^^ entitled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State 
of California to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the 
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Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco 
by way of Goat Island to Oakland", approved February 20, 1931, is 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 2. (a) The State of California is hereby authorized to fix, 
charge, and collect tolls for the use of the bridge referred to in the 
first section of this Act, at rates so adjusted as (1) to provide a fund 
sufficient to pay the reasonable costs of maintaining, repairing, and 
operating such bridge and its approaches under economical manage-
ment, (2) to pay the costs of such bridge and its approaches (includ-
ing reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable 
reserves), and (3) to repay all sums advanced and required to be 
repaid under the laws of the State of California heretofore enacted. 
"(b) The State of California is authorized to fix, charge, and collect 
tolls for the use of such bridge to pay the costs of engineering, plan-
ning, constructing, reconstructing, making alterations, additions, bet-
terments, improvements, and extensions (including reasonable interest, 
financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and the costs 
of maintaining, repairing, and operating of not to exceed two addi-
tional highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco and their 
approaches. The State of California is also authorized to fix, charge, 
and collect tolls for the use of such additional highway crossing or 
crossings. After a fund shall have been provided from the tolls col-
lected for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this 
Act and from tolls charged for the use of such additional highway 
crossing or crossings, sufficient to pay all costs referred to in clauses 
(2) and (3) of subsection (a) and also all costs of such additional 
highway crossing or crossings and their approaches 
(including 
the costs of all reconstruction, alterations, additions, betterments, 
improvements, and extensions thereof and all interest, financing, and 
refunding costs, and suitable reserves), such bridge and such addi-
tional highway crossing or crossings shall thereafter be maintained 
and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be 
adjusted so as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount neces-
sary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of such 
bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings, and their 
approaches, under economical management. 
An accurate record of 
the costs of such bridge and such highway crossing or crossings, and 
their 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." 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
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Public Law 155 
CHAPTER 250 
AN ACT 
Directing the conveyance of certain property to the city of Rupert, Idaho. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the city of Rupert, Idaho, all right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to the lands described in 
section 2 of this Act: Provided, That such conveyance shall be subject 
to the continued use, without payment of ground or other rental 
therefor, of the improvements and necessary land presently used for 
veterans' temporary housing project IDA-V-10147, for so long as 
they may be needed, under the contract between the city of Rupert 
and the United States for such project, it being understood that the 
July 28, 1953 
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Rupert, Idaho. 
Conveyance.