Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12A — Tennessee Valley Authority
§ 831. Creation; short title
Statutory text
For the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the National defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is created a body corporate by the name of the “Tennessee Valley Authority” (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”). The Board of Directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the Board. This chapter may be cited as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.”
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.
Pub. L. 73–32 § 1 · 48 Stat. 58
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 831
May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 1, 48 Stat. 58
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 1, 48 Stat. 58Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005
Pub. L. 108–447 div. C title VI § 603(a) · 118 Stat. 2809
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831
Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board of Directors” for “board of directors”
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831
Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board of Directors” for “board of directors” and “Board” for “board”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board of Directors” for “board of directors” and “Board” for “board”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 2004 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or , see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.
Credits
1933–2004 · 2 acts
- 1933May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 1, 48 Stat. 58
- 2004Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, § 603(a), , 118 Stat. 2966.
Show as published
(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 1, 48 Stat. 58; Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, § 603(a), , 118 Stat. 2966.)