Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally
§ 402. Construction of bridges, etc., over Illinois and Mississippi Canal
Statutory text
The provisions of section 401 of this title are made applicable alike to the completed and uncompleted portions of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Whenever the Secretary of the Army shall approve plans for a bridge to be built across said canal he may, in his discretion, and subject to such terms and conditions as in his judgment are equitable, expedient, and just to the public, grant to the person or corporation building and owning such bridge a right of way across the lands of the United States on either side of and adjacent to the said canal; also the privilege of occupying so much of said lands as may be necessary for the piers, abutments, and other portions of the bridge structure and approaches.
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. 57–1079 § 10 · 32 Stat. 331
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 402
June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 10, 32 Stat. 374
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 10, 32 Stat. 374Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. That the provisions of section nine of the river and harbor Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby made applicable alike to the completed and uncompleted portions of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Whenever the Secretary of War shall approve plans for a bridge to be built across said canal he may, in his discretion, and subject to such terms and conditions as in his judgment are equitable, expedient, and just to the public, grant to the person or corporation building and owning such bridge a right of way across the lands of the United States on either side of and adjacent to Piers, etc. the said canal; also the privilege of occupying so much of said lands as may be necessary for the piers, abutments, and other portions of the bridge structure and approaches.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from part of act , popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1902”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Transfer of Functions
Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of the Army and other offices and officers of Department of the Army under section 401 of this title to extent that they relate generally to location and clearances of bridges and causeways in navigable waters of United States transferred to and vested in Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89–670, § 6(g)(6)(A), , 80 Stat. 941. Pub. L. 97–449 amended section 401 of this title to reflect transfer made by section 6(g)(6)(A) of Pub. L. 89–670, and repealed section 6(g)(6)(A).
Credits
1902–1947 · 2 acts
- 1902June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 10, 32 Stat. 374
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
Show as published
(June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 10, 32 Stat. 374; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)