54-11-206 - Toll bridges and causeways Toll charged Maintenance and repair.
54-11-206. Toll bridges and causeways Toll charged Maintenance and repair.
(a) A bridge or causeway deemed too expensive to be made a county charge may be declared a toll bridge or causeway, and the county legislative body shall fix the toll to be paid on all persons, carriages, horses, and cattle passing over the bridge or causeway.
(b) The county legislative body may grant the revenues arising from the tolls, for a number of years agreed upon, to the builder of the bridge or causeway, the builder's heirs, successors, and assigns, the person engaging to keep the bridge or causeway in constant repair at the person's sole expense, in default of which, on conviction, to forfeit all right and title to the tolls.
[Code 1858, § 1215 (deriv. Acts 1804, ch. 1, § 7); Shan., § 1711; Code 1932, § 3021; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-1112.]