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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 46 — National Levee Safety Program

§ 3304. Limitations on statutory construction

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as—

(1)

creating any liability of the United States or its officers or employees for the recovery of damages caused by an action or failure to act; or

(2)

relieving an owner or operator of a levee of a legal duty, obligation, or liability incident to the ownership or operation of a levee.

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. National Levee Safety Act of 2007

    Pub. L. 110–114 title IX § 9007 · 121 Stat. 1041

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3304

    Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9007, formerly § 9005, Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1290

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9007, formerly § 9005, Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1290

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 9005. LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.   Nothing in this title shall be construed as— (1) creating any liability of the United States or its officers or employees for the recovery of damages caused by an action or failure to act; or (2) relieving an owner or operator of a levee of a legal duty, obligation, or liability incident to the ownership or operation of a levee.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

2007–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 2007Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9007, formerly § 9005, , 121 Stat. 1290
  2. 2014renumbered § 9007, Pub. L. 113–121, title III, § 3016(e)(1), , 128 Stat. 1293.
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(Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9007, formerly § 9005, , 121 Stat. 1290; renumbered § 9007, Pub. L. 113–121, title III, § 3016(e)(1), , 128 Stat. 1293.)

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