---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 913"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "913"
heading: "Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/913"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads"
---

# §913. Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality


All railroad companies to which grants for rights of way through the [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) have been made by Congress, or their successors in interest or assigns, are authorized to convey to any [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), county, or municipality any portion of such right of way to be used as a public highway or street: Provided, That no such conveyance shall have the effect to diminish the right of way of such railroad company to a less width than 50 feet on each side of the center of the main track of the railroad as now established and maintained.


## Source credit

(May 25, 1920, ch. 197, 41 Stat. 621.)