---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 535a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "535a"
heading: "Congressional consent to State agreements with Canada and Mexico; Secretary of State’s approval of agreements"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/535a"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters"
  - "Subchapter IV — International Bridges"
---

# §535a. Congressional consent to State agreements with Canada and Mexico; Secretary of State’s approval of agreements


The consent of Congress is hereby granted for a State or a subdivision or instrumentality thereof to enter into agreements—

- (1) with the Government of Canada, a Canadian Province, or a subdivision or instrumentality of either, in the case of a bridge connecting the United States and Canada, or
- (2) with the Government of Mexico, a Mexican State, or a subdivision or instrumentality of either, in the case of a bridge connecting the United States and Mexico,

for the [construction](/usc/33/426e.md?p=c), operation, and maintenance of such bridge in accordance with the applicable provisions of this subchapter. The effectiveness of such agreement shall be conditioned on its approval by the Secretary of State.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–434, § 3, Sept. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 731.)