Section 313 · Width of rights-of-way

Amended 2 times on record

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1973)

Most recently applied in New Mexico Navajo Ranchers Ass'n v. Interstate Commerce Commission (March 1983)

Such right of way shall not exceed fifty feet in width on each side of the center line of the road, except where there are heavy cuts and fills, when it shall not exceed one hundred feet in width on each side of the road, and may include grounds adjacent thereto for station buildings, depots, machine shops, sidetracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed two hundred feet in width by a length of three thousand feet, and not more than one station to be located within any one continuous length of ten miles of road.

Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel

Cross References

Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, application of section, see section 322 of this title.