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PUBLIC LAW 87-441-APR. 27, 1962

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or authority created by Act of Congress to the highway department or other agency of the State or States concerned, or to joint agencies established by interstate compact or agreement. Such transfer shall be carried out in a manner as may be prescribed or authorized by the laws of the State or States concerned. Upon such transfer, such bridge commission or authority shall cease to exist. SEC. 5. (a) All provisions of Acts of Congress creating bridge com- Enforcement, missions or authorities may be enforced or the violation thereof prevented by mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate remedy by the chief legal officer of either State concerned, in any court having competent jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties. The following provisions of law are hereby repealed: Repeals. Section 11 of the Act approved October 30, 1951 (65 Stat. 699); Section 15 of the Act approved July 26, 1956 (70 Stat. 676); Section 12 of the Act approved April 12, 1941 (55 Stat. 144). (b) Members and employees of bridge commissions and authorities created by Act of Congress shall not be deemed to be Federal officers and employees. (c) The members of such bridge commissions and authorities shall Per diem comeach be entitled to a per diem compensation for their services of $20 p^n^^t^""for each day actually spent in the business of the commission or authority, but the maximum per diem compensation of the chairman in any one year shall not exceed $3,000, and of each other member in any one year shall not exceed $2,000. The members of such commissions and authorities shall also be entitled to receive traveling expense allowance of 12 cents a mile for each mile actually traveled on the business of the commission or authority. Payments under the provisions of this subsection shall be in lieu of any other payments for salary or expenses authorized for service as a member of any such commission or authority under the provisions of any other Federal law relating to such commission or authority, but nothing in this subsection shall affect any other Federal law with respect to the funds from which any such payments shall be made. This subsection shall not apply to any bridge or causeway commis- Exception. sion or authority created by an Act of Congress, the entire membership of which is ex officio. SEC. 6. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to the following bridge commissions and authority: (1) Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission, created by the Act approved May 17, 1939 (53 Stat. 747); (2) White County Bridge Commission, created by the Act approved April 12, 1941 (55 Stat. 140); < (3) City of Clinton Bridge Commission, created by the Act approved December 21, 1944 (58 Stat. 846); (4) Sabine Lake Bridge and Causeway Authority, created by the Act approved October 30, 1951 (65 Stat. 695); and (5) Muscatine Bridge Commission, created by the Act approved July 26, 1956 (70 Stat. 669). SEC. 7. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such pro- separability vision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder p«"°^i»^o*>»of the Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. Approved April 27, 1962.

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