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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 21. Bayou Cocodrie, Louisiana

Statutory text

Bayou Cocodrie, from its source to its junction with Bayou Chicot, in the State of Louisiana, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws enacted by the Congress for the preservation and protection of such waters.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

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. 66–71 · 41 Stat. 291

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 21

    (Feb. 25, 1921, ch. 71, §§ 1, 2, 41 Stat. 1145.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1921, ch. 71, §§ 1, 2, 41 Stat. 1145.)

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

The first sentence hereof is section 1 and the second sentence section 2 of act , entitled “An Act to declare Bayou Cocodrie nonnavigable from its source to its junction with Bayou Chicot”.

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1921, ch. 71, §§ 1, 2, 41 Stat. 1145.)

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