Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally
§ 426b. Applicability of existing laws; projects referred to Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Statutory text
All provisions of existing law relating to examinations and surveys and to works of improvement of rivers and harbors shall apply, insofar as practicable, to examinations and surveys and to works of improvement relating to shore protection; except that all projects having to do with shore protection shall be referred for consideration and recommendation to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.
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. 79–334 § 2 · 59 Stat. 508
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 426b
July 31, 1945, ch. 334, § 2, 59 Stat. 508
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 31, 1945, ch. 334, § 2, 59 Stat. 508Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. Application of existing law. All provisions of existing law relating to examinations and surveys and to works of improvement of rivers and harbors shall apply, insofar as practicable, to examinations and surveys and to Exception. works of improvement relating to shore protection; except that all projects having to do with shore protection shall be referred for consideration and recommendation to the Beach Erosion Board instead of to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Provision for the referral of projects having to do with shore protection for consideration and recommendation to the Beach Erosion Board have been omitted as obsolete in view of the abolition of the Beach Erosion Board and the transfer of its review function to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors by Pub. L. 88–172, § 1. See section 426–3 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Termination of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and Reassignment of Duties and Responsibilities
For termination of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors 180 days after , and reassignment of duties and responsibilities by Secretary of Army, see section 223 of Pub. L. 102–580, set out as a note under section 541 of this title.
Credits
1945–1963 · 2 acts
- 1945July 31, 1945, ch. 334, § 2, 59 Stat. 508
- 1963Pub. L. 88–172, § 1, , 77 Stat. 304.
Show as published
(July 31, 1945, ch. 334, § 2, 59 Stat. 508; Pub. L. 88–172, § 1, , 77 Stat. 304.)