Sec. 1. Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the department is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into negotiations with the proper authority having control of the state highways of the state of Illinois, and with the owners of the bridge which spans the Wabash River and over which State Highway No. 66 passes from this state into the state of Illinois, for the purpose of acquiring the ownership of and title to such bridge, jointly, by the state of Illinois and the state of Indiana.

Formerly: Acts 1937, c.160, s.1. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.74, SEC.294.