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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power

§ 822. Reservation of right to alter or repeal chapter

Statutory text

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this chapter is expressly reserved; but no such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall affect any license theretofore issued under the provisions of this chapter or the rights of any licensee thereunder.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 66–285 · 41 Stat. 1063

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 822

    June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 28, 41 Stat. 1077

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 28, 41 Stat. 1077

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

1920–1935 · 2 acts
  1. 1920June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 28, 41 Stat. 1077
  2. 1935renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.
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(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 28, 41 Stat. 1077; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.)

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