---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 498"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "498"
heading: "Reservation of right to alter or repeal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/498"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §498. Reservation of right to alter or repeal


The right to alter, amend, or repeal sections [491](/usc/33/491.md) to [494](/usc/33/494.md) and [495](/usc/33/495.md) to 498 of this title, is expressly reserved as to any and all bridges which may be built in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and the United States shall incur no liability for the alteration, amendment, or repeal thereof to the owner or owners or any other persons interested in any bridge which shall have been constructed in accordance with its provisions.


## Source credit

(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 8, 34 Stat. 86.)