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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally

§ 451a. Harbors subject to this subchapter

Statutory text

The following harbors shall be subject to this subchapter:

(1)

The harbor of New York.

(2)

The harbor of Hampton Roads.

(3)

The harbor of Baltimore.

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. 50–496 § 6 · 25 Stat. 209

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 451a

    June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 6, 25 Stat. 210

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 6, 25 Stat. 210

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. That the sum of thirty thousand dollars or so much thereof Appropriation. as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay that sum from moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

  2. Pub. L. 85–802 § 1(7) · 72 Stat. 970

    Substituted · 33 U.S.C. § 451a

    Pub. L. 85–802 substituted provisions making harbors of New York, Hampton Roads, and Baltimore subject to this subchapter for appropriation provisions

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 85–802 substituted provisions making harbors of New York, Hampton Roads, and Baltimore subject to this subchapter for appropriation provisions.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) The first section (33 U. S. C. 441) is amended by striking out “tidal waters of the harbor of New York, or its adjacent or tributary waters, or in those of Long Island Sound,”, and inserting in lieu thereof “waters of any harbor subject to this Act,”.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 85–802 effective on sixtieth day after Aug. 28, 1958, see section 2 of Pub. L. 85–802, set out as a note under section 441 of this title.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1958—Pub. L. 85–802 substituted provisions making harbors of New York, Hampton Roads, and Baltimore subject to this subchapter for appropriation provisions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1958 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 85–802 effective on sixtieth day after , see section 2 of Pub. L. 85–802, set out as a note under section 441 of this title.

Credits

1888–1958 · 2 acts
  1. 1888June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 6, 25 Stat. 210
  2. 1958Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(7), , 72 Stat. 970.
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(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 6, 25 Stat. 210; Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(7), , 72 Stat. 970.)

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