---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 531"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "531"
heading: "International bridges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/531"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters"
  - "Subchapter III — General Bridge Authority"
---

# §531. International bridges


This subchapter shall not be construed to authorize the construction of any bridge which will connect the United States, or any Territory or possession of the United States, with any foreign country.


## Source credit

(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, title V, § 508, 60 Stat. 849.)