Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally
§ 451b. Waters included within subchapter
Statutory text
For the purposes of this subchapter—
The term “harbor of New York” means the tidal waters of the harbor of New York, its adjacent and tributary waters, and those of Long Island Sound.
The term “harbor of Hampton Roads” means the tidal waters of the harbors of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton Roads, and their adjacent and tributary waters, so much of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries as lies within the State of Virginia, and so much of the Atlantic Ocean and its tributaries as lies within the jurisdiction of the United States within or to the east of the State of Virginia.
The term “harbor of Baltimore” means the tidal waters of the harbor of Baltimore and its adjacent and tributary waters, and so much of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries as lies within the State of Maryland.
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. 85–802 § 1(8) · 72 Stat. 970
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 451b
(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 7, as added Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(8), Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 970.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 7, as added Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(8), Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 970.)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,”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on sixtieth day after , see section 2 of Pub. L. 85–802, set out as an Effective Date of 1958 Amendment note under section 441 of this title.
Credits
(June 29, 1888, ch. 496, § 7, as added Pub. L. 85–802, § 1(8), , 72 Stat. 970.)