Article 98.
The Government shall, with the consent of the Reichsrat set up Advisory Committees to co-operate in the administration of waterways.
Article 99.
No dues may be levied over natural waterways except such as are applied to construction, plant, or other works facilitating communication. They must not exceed, in the case of State or municipal construction, the costs incurred by building and upkeep. Costs incurred by the building and upkeep of works which do not exclusively facilitate communication but are also designed for other purposes, may only be defrayed out of dues levied on shipping pro rata. Interest and sinking-fund for the capital involved are reckoned as part of the cost of construction.
This shall apply to dues levied on artificial waterways and on constructions in connection with them or in harbours.
In the administration of inland canals shipping dues may be levied on a basis of the total combined costs of a canal, a river, or of a whole waterways system.
This shall also apply to floating of constructions on the navigable waterways.
The Realm is alone entitled to levy heavier dues on foreign ships and their freights than are levied on German ships and their freights.
The Realm is entitled, by legislation, to obtain contributions from users of the waterways by other methods, in order to serve the upkeep and extension of the German waterways system.
Article 100.